I tried to always include my children in everything that I did. I traveled with them, I brought them with me to work, I tried to balance it between work and being a mother as best as I could.

I sleep in the pajamas almost every single night, if not, the nightgowns.

When I get on the airplane, I put on the eye mask. And I travel a lot so I use it all the time.

Experience prefers humility.

It's shocking when someone who is really bad thinks they're really good. It's heartbreaking, because singing is such a vulnerable thing to do.

I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.

I know not everyone is a musician, but it's important to find that craft and put all of your energy into that. It's about leaving the bad vibes and going to where the good vibes are.

The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue.

As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.

A great idea is simply the combination of many good ideas.

At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

I often think, no one wants to read this. No one wants to hear this. My own work makes me cringe sometimes, cringe in a "there's nothing I can do because it had to come out like this" kind of way.

One keeps healthy in wartime...by a vigorous assertion of values in which war has no part.