Quality is free, however - the Management Systems that proliferate it are not.

I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.

I either write songs on guitar, or... I don't ever have a keyboard with me, but like, my keyboard on the laptop.

I don't need to improve the look of my own if I don't even know what it looks like.

It's hard to sing really well when you're playing an instrument, but it'd be great to try and sing really well and have vocal effects and one drummer on a real drum-kit, and one on an electronic kit.

I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.

Because I'm always so paranoid about doing corny things, or cheesy things in music, that often I probably don't make as good music as I could if I wasn't stifling it so much.

I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good.

Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

I'm the daughter of two Indian immigrant doctors, and I have an older sister and younger brother, and none of us have pursued medicine as a career. We're all over the artistic side of things.

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

Why, exactly, are scientists supposed to accord "respect" to a bunch of ancient fables that are not only ludicrous on their face, but motivate so much opposition to science?

When I am writing anything in general, I just want to tell the story that exists in my head; I don't try to write a parable or make a point.

The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.

Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.