Press the button, pump the water, build the pressure, push the piston, press the button. It's the perfect job.

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.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

I always got my work done before playing.

If you expect the worst from a person you can never be disappointed.

In documentary you sometimes see the tyranny of the linear, but what I've noticed in the last ten years in narrative film is the tyranny of the non-linear.

My work since the late '80s specifically questioned what was presented as the "natural" order of things in the history of post war NY painting.

I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.

Every rebellion which is not in its own nature self-destructive, is an expression of the divine spirit.

Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

The heart of taijutsu is important and only through training will one polish that heart (like a gem) and understand true taijutsu.