I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.

I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be complicit in my own dehumanization.

I'm not going to sit around and be peace and love with somebody's boot on my neck.

Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

Art revolves around creating something that isn't there.

So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

Think of something that you can do as opposed to all the things you can't do - and do that.

It takes falling down a bunch of times before you start running.

Sexism and racism and homophobia and classism are so naturalized. All these stereotypes make people think it's just normal that straight white men are getting all the breaks.

I feel so lucky that I met the love of my life. You know somebody's in it to win it when...you're having a seizure and they're holding you.

Jason Mraz, and the new James Blunt song is the worst thing that has ever been created on the face of the earth.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days?""No, " I answer. "They teach us to use spell-check.

I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.

Michael Jordon may have been the best basketball player in history, but he couldn't have won six NBA titles without a team.

We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.

With the right attitude, self imposed limitations vanish

I have plenty of money, unlike other Hollywood celebrities or athletes that have not invested well.

Never have varmints, only grandvarmints.

I was keenly aware that I had a unique opportunity, a front row seat, on an unfolding story and nobody else was going to see it from quite the vantage point that I saw it.

.. the whole idea is that if you turn your amp up to 10, you should still be able to play at a whisper - you've got to learn to control your hands

To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.