Once you're away from music, I realize that's as intrinsic to who I am as anything else. That's the part that takes me out of my brain.

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.

As with everything else, the more we separate ourselves from each other, the weaker we become.

We all have control over what kind of person we are. Each word that comes out, each action that we take, defines us.

CharityIn charity lies happiness and bliss, If you haven’t done charity, you may miss, The power to love and share, Charity gives you happiness beyond compare.

...ya can't get to Nevada on five bucks and a bad heart...

Your computer needn't be the first thing your see in the morning and the last thing you see at night.

It's dishonourable to stay stupider than you need to be

Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength is fled and the men must produce victory on will alone.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.