I have a really big interest in the spirit world: spooks and the things we can't necessarily see but feel.

I love making people sing. I love group singing, sacred harp singing, choral singing, recordings of people singing sea shanties, work songs, prison songs - how people just sang to get through things.

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

New York is beautiful, but [the South] makes it look like a wasteland.

Someone can do anything they want to you on the outside, but whatever they do to me they cannot destroy what's on my inside. Mentally that cannot be taken away from me, no matter what someone does.

A lot of my video work is super lo-fi on purpose. I'm not trying to become technically super proficient. The only thing I'm interested in becoming technically proficient on is my alto saxophone.

I'm a history geek and I love American history. It's so bizarre and so problematic and I love the many conundrums that it represents. You can go down so many black holes.

Leading a band is fun, but it's not always something I want to continually focus on. I have my toes in a lot of different things.

Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury.

I's taken me a great deal to get here. I don't plan on missing anything.

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

in Italy, almost at every step, history and poetry add to the graces of nature, sweeten the memory of the past, and seem to preserve it in eternal youth.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought.

Give cheerfully. If we're not cheerful, the problem is our heart, and the solution is redirecting our heart, not withholding our giving.

When your life is as precious as all our lives are, then it needs to be kept precious and looked after and treated well. And that is not something we should be sharing with a wider audience.

I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.