The key things are about power and about growing up and realizing as you grow up that there are consequences for the choices you make, especially when you get seduced by power.

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.

Contentment is the foundation of true Happiness. The Happiness that comes from fulfilling desires can never be permanent.-RVM

There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

Some make the world go round; others watch it turn.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing all the way. Just know you'll have to live with all the choices that you make.

This is very domestic of you," he said. "It's kinda hot, really. Giving me all sorts of fantasies about you in an apron vacuuming my house.

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