It's people who write music because they are obsessed that I like; because they have something to say and no other way to say it.

Personally Im very happy to be behind the scenes. I like collaboration, I like working with directors.

Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Choose your mutations carefully...

If you're in music just to become a big, fat rock star, then I probably don't like your music to begin with.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

As far as the style, I was fascinated by surrealism.

I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.

If you get rid of a lot of the poseurs by destroying record companies, maybe it's a good trade-off.

So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game.

On many American campuses the only qualification for admission was the ability actually to find the campus and then discover a parking space.

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism.

I never saved my money. Whenever I worked in the past, I would spend it on my family or my husbands.

My dad wears girls' clothes - it's so funny. Sometimes I see him and I'm like, 'Nice shirt!,' because it's from my closet.

True love for whatever you are doing is the answer to everything.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

History shows that tax increases during a recession are a recipe for greater unemployment and economic loss.

In America, you assassinate president. In Soviet Russia, president assassinate you!