“I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called...” — Emmy Rossum Quote

“I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.”

“I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.”

“I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.”

“My system uses the speed of components in cameras and cell phones to get four inches of depth through the brain.”

“I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.”

“It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.”