There are so many more productive things to do than sit around feeling shame and guilt. Beyond touching on shame and guilt in a perfunctory manner, I wouldn't bother with that at all.

Any woman who says she's not a feminist is just someone who's afraid of being penalised for saying she wants to advocate for women.

I think what holds people up in creative processes is the expectation of what it is they're doing. It's also the sense of judgement, you know, people editing themselves.

I see everything as creative material. If I pick up a shell of a song that I wrote 10 years ago, all that matters is the reality of that material as it's living today.

Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical.

Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument is so compelling.

What did the mat say to the door? You must be really aDOORable to open up to everyone who knock at you. And I welcome everyone and what do I get? People stepping all over me

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

In visualizing, or making a mental picture you are not endeavoring to change the laws of nature. You are fulfilling them.

There are so many things that go into casting that you just never know.

my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.

Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.

I believe that laughter is a language of God and that we can all live happily ever laughter.