Dreams so often become nightmares. Family can so easily become foes. And people are always more stupid than you give them credit for.

Handle your tools without mittens.

I don't do office work at home.

Don't rush or force the ending. All you have to know is the next scene, or the next few scenes.

Within the human frequency of perception, what you see is what you get. I would classify the bottom of the band as severe unhappiness, depression and alimentation.

Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish!

I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.