One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.

I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way.

I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

I'm just an advertisement for a version of myself.

I don't care how impossible it seems.

If there is to be reconciliation, first there must be truth.

To honor the self is to be willing to think independently, to live by our own mind, and to have the courage of our own perceptions.

We weep for the blood of a bird, but not for the blood of a fish. Blessed are those who have voice.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

I know that I'm only as good as I am because of the things that I allow into myself and into my soul, because that's the stuff that I project back out.

You know you must be doing something right if old people like you.

While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really...motivated by psychological disturbance.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.