I'd be the outsider gal who undergoes a makeover in the end [in the 'The Breakfast Club' ].

A great song is the reason you want to jump out of your bed in the morning.

I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.

I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.

My main influences are pop and folk music - Bob Lind, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, the Motown collection, The Zombies, Elliott Smith, and a ton of 70's AM radio hits. I love powerpop too.

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

Everywhere, everywhere, children are the scorned people of the earth.

Everyone's on a journey trying to find their purpose in life. That lost horizon. You'll never truly be happy...until you find it!

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work.

In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.

There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.

I have so many people come up to me, 20-some years later, and saying, "I loved you in Jawbreaker!".

Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn't it such a relief to have somebody say that?

You might recall, perhaps, that we were probably the only commentators to rely on the most knowledgeable source, State Department intelligence.

The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.