I think proteins are really good for your brain. And your brain is where comedy comes from.

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.

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.

She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.

Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.

Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's always borrowing money and can't hold down a job.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

Nothing feeds a hunger like a thirst

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

How can you stop people from loving each other? How can you get upset about loving?