For me, being in shape means, like, not having cynicism out-weigh optimism on a daily basis.

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

I need a template of a template

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Sketch what you got, it will determine what you will be.

Make a list of things you like doing and then do them

I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.

Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women."

I liked that title. I didn't want to lose it to anybody, but if I had to lose it, I'm glad I lost it to you. You're a good fighter and gonna be a great champ.

My friends should drink a dozen of Claret on my Tomb.

It remains unbelievable to me that I have any readers beyond my own blood relations - it's a crazy, wild gift.

I'm curious how you'll know it works. I assume it's mostly a cosmetic change.

To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.