I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar, and I ended up ... making things that I think can change the world.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

I made a nuclear reactor when I was 14

I got into nuclear science when I was about 10 years old I was fascinated by the stuff. I was fascinated by the reactions and the power inside these atoms that we had the capability to unlock.

I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

I don't dream my dreams, I live my dreams ... I AM AN ENTREPRENEUR.

It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in the past it has endured suffering and recovered.

I do feel free, I have patched things up with my ex-husband to the degree of this real friendship. We spend a lot of time together as a family with our son, no way will we be man and wife again.

It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

I did not know at the time, but what I did at that swimming pool [on the east side of Wilmington] paved the way for Barack Obama.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

I don't love performing, because it's nerve-racking and it's time - consuming to rehearse a whole set - and my time can often be better served writing music and just making it and putting it out.

Success is total self-acceptance.