People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Happiness does not mean being free from problems and trials, but finding purpose in problems and trials can result in abundant happiness.

If we surrenderedto earth's intelligencewe could rise up rooted, like trees.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

Is she perverted like me? Would she go down on you in a theatre?

I want everything, no matter what concept or genre, to feel real, because it is real. I want to keep making real music, I hope people remember me for that, that's a good thing to be remembered for.

I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

Most institutions demand unqualified faith; but the institution of science makes skepticism a virtue.

If you don't get it built, the work doesn't matter.