“I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands soone...” — Rachel Platten Quote

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.

There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best thing you can do for yourself is to block out all of that noise.

I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to play music that I liked, and even when I was in cover bands when I was a teenager we only played cover tunes that we liked. That was the simple morality that I grew up with.

I'm sure Sting's a lovely guy. It's just that nobody wants to be seen as that holier-than-thou thing. That over-earnestness is a bit of a problem with people in bands and celebrities or whatever.

My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.

Being in the bands of a hurricane, it's not like a tornado that's going to pass very quickly. It's the most serious thing that you will ever experience next to, I'm sure, an earthquake.