In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

Want to dance? We have music this time. And I don't have to punch you when we finish.

Non est ad astra mollis e terris via.That's my philosophy. Its a quote from the past. "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.

Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization.

From birth to the teenage years, the brain undergoes a fourfold increase in volume

The problem is that Islam does not have a pope, so there's no one guy to say, 'This isn't kosher'...Not that he would.

Everyone knows the rules of three's, you can survive three weeks without food, but not in this environment.

Deny my individuality and I become an animal, mute, a mere creature of all the forces that act upon me.

I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.