I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

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.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?

Don't think I was the only reason he healed. You're his light, Marissa. Don't ever forget that.

To combat social awkwardness, I would just act like I couldn't be bothered - that kind of aloof persona or aloof demeanor. It's so off-putting.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

To ask for a map is to say, "Tell me a story."

If something is not working today, then something better is in store. This surety should be in our mind.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.