I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...

When we are depleted our giving is empty. Today I take a moment to recharge, fill up with love for my life and all of its character so that I may give from a place of overflowing.

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

Pressure is what you feel when you don't know what's going on.

Normally when a person has a stellar image another person's waiting in the wings to tear them apart. They're waiting for that one fatal flaw to expose itself.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake “the intolerable labor of thought” — that most distasteful of all our activities.

I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.