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

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

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.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

If people buy your story, you'll never run dry.

There always comes the day when children swallowthe key to the door of secrecy. They’ll not return it.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

Once you choose hope, anything's possible

When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

The Right insists that anyone can escape poverty by working hard but that is simply not the case.