I've always seen myself as the person listening to alternative music and all that - generic indie person. I always tried to be the least pretty I could be.

Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

Inner peace comes from the Creator.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the not-self that there is no self left to die.

Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.

Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.

Sin is present in everyone as a nature before it expresses itself in deeds

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.

God is beautiful and He loves beauty.

I would never want the responsibility of being the prettiest girl on screen; it's too much.

When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.