I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

Sometimes it's, run don't walk! Like when you're going to the arms of a loved one.

One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."

Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.

I have fake eye lashes on and they feel like tarantulas. But they're not real tarantulas.

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

Everyone has a right to change their consciousness, but ultimately the whole process is misleading.

Now that another is suffering pain at thy hand, trust not that thy heart shall be exempt from affliction.

The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing.