Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.

My own perception was that although it kind of sucks to be stuck in a contract you signed a long time ago, when you're having success, it gives you some leverage.

I figured that if anyone could be wildly popular in one town, then that could be replicated everywhere, all you have to do is get the word out.

Sleater-Kinney's biggest momentum was from the press - that, second to Radiohead, they got more positive press than any other band in America in the 90s.

When Elliott Smith came out, it was falling on deaf ears. But artists were reacting to it.

Every flower blooms from the face of impossibility with a hope to make this world beautiful.

The nature of everything is, fair and based on justice. We make that unfair and unjust.

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring — read a book.

In syndication, the biggest buyers are car dealerships.

Hope is not an emotion; it's a way of thinking or a cognitive process.

I always see guys get all, like, flexed on other people, trying to show off that they are tough, and it is just, like, no girl really likes that.

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

My husband, when I was filming the Millennium movies, he asked me, 'How far are you going and when are you coming back?'

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite.