I grew up always hanging out with boys, and I always wanted to play rock 'n' roll with boys, and so I've always acted kind of like a man.

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

I worked really hard to develop me as an artist and as a musician. I have so many different influences and play so many different instruments, I don't think anyone knew what to do with me!

The music I play and write is all reflective of myself and the experiences in my life. I feel like my whole journey is just collecting stories and songs along the way.

I think I have the best of both worlds because I am a woman, but I'm also a tomboy.

People want real. And there are a lot of women out there doing that.

I was born out of a Vegas marriage: My parents got married three days after they met.

Sometimes I'm really funny, sometimes I'm quiet, sometimes I'm shy, but I'm constantly changing.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

Success is ...embracing one's failure

We are gods. Our tools make us gods. In symbiosis with our technology, our powers are expanding exponentially and so, too, our possibilities.

My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.