I think people at most record labels really like music, but it's hard because everything is so subjective, and everyone's so creative in their own right.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

God is an hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof: the onus probandi rests on the theist.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

Handling power is very much like handling explosives, you have to have a great deal of respect for it and most people don't.

God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition.

In this day and age, you need a lot of patience if you are in the movie business.

More cranks take up unfashionable errors than unfashionable truths.

Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.

The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

Scientific results that aren't reported might as well not exist. They're like the sound of one hand clapping. For scientists, communication isn't only a responsibility, it's our chief pleasure.

Success is when you realize obstacles you face are challenges to help you become better - and your response equals the challenge.