I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

It seemed like, in the early '80s, there was just a moment where there was suddenly no specific notion of what a rock band could be or what a song could be.

I started wanting to inject more colorful chord phrasings from the music I actually grew up on, which was Hendrix, Rolling Stones, and stuff like that.

It sounds a little cliché, but I wanted to capture some of the feelings or sounds that I heard when I listened to music that actually took me places.

A lot of the bands I loved, I didn't know where they came from or where they were going.

I generally write music first and then hum out the vocal. Sometimes I'll take a phrase that I use as a placeholder and just write around that.

Everything I'm doing musically is for its own sake. I'm recording at my house, trying really hard to write songs with a four-track tape recorder.

May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

There's nothing as satisfying, thrilling and gratifying as parenthood.

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.

When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

We should be breaking down barriers, not building walls.

I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.