I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.

Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.

There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.

It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

Will had laid down his heart for her and Jem to walk upon because he loved them more than he loved himself

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain.

I don't feel I'll live a long life. That's why I have to get what I can from every day.

The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned.

I respect a lot of people I don't agree with.

Well, first of all, I was asked by Ross Perot on a telephone call in March of 1992 if, since he had committed on the Larry King Show to becoming a candidate for president, to get on all 50 ballots

Any glimpse into the life of an animal quickens our own and makes it so much the larger and better in every way.