It's hard to beat the visceral high of playing live and creating something spontaneous.

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

I need a template of a template

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

If you want to learn to do something right, watch someone who has done it successfully.

People first make unhappy, then say stay happy.

The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.

Before you quit, you have to try

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

I'd love to do a movie like 'The Machinist.' It's an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.