Music has always been my constant, my salvation. It's cliche to write that, but it's true.

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.

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

Morality is just a fiction used by the herd of inferior human beings to hold back the few superior men.

You cannot surprise an individual more than twice with the same marvel

The pioneering spirit is less about thinking up new ideas, as ridding ourselves of dogmas and habits that hold us captive in thinking.

Never like seein' strangers. Guess it's cause no stranger ever good newsed me.

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.