The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

I have tender, romantic associations with upstate New York.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.

No role is more challenging, rewarding and inspiring than my real-life role as a mom and a wife.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Am I ambitious? I used to be afraid of that word but now I think ambition is a good thing.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

Dreams are the fingerprints of your future

We will never outrun the nagging of original divinely inspired purpose.

Nobody expects that just because they've made computers better they're going to give them to you free.

Life is short, so fall in love, dear maiden, before your youthful ardor cools off, for there is no tomorrow.

The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments.

People make excuses [for not wanting to fight me]. It has a lot to do with my style. I'm a crafty fighter but I can also punch.

I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

A mother is only as happy as her saddest child.