“I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about the good things or the things that were exciting or interesting but also talk about the things that people in general are skeptical to talk about.”

I don’t necessarily sit down and talk to my friends about all the things that I write my music about, because it’s easier for me to write music than to sit and talk to my friends about it sometimes- it’s almost like writing in a diary.

When I was younger it felt very alienating and I try my best to be the person that I would’ve needed, for other people.

I’ve based my entire career off of just trying to do that for them – but I always kind of forget that my real life friends can hear my music and they can watch my interviews if they want and that’s when I get kind of like- “oh…”

When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn’t always connect with them because all these people would constantly sing these party songs and I couldn’t always relate to them.

The bad things that do happen. A good 50% of our lives is things that are happening that we’re not necessarily super thrilled about and I feel like that’s missing from pop music a lot of the time so my main goal is to be truthful about everything and not just specific things.

It’s not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that’s what I set out to do from the beginning .

I would love to have everybody in the world love Bob Schneider. That’s my goal- hundred per cent world domination!

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

We weren’t trying to strike it rich with Firefox. It’s open source and it’s free. We weren’t trying to take over the world; we had kind of modest goals, and it was OK if it failed.

The goal of higher education should be to champion the airing of all honest viewpoints. Nothing less is acceptable.

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.

The goal in Afghanistan is to find the terrorists and take them out.

In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly.

I don’t intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer.