When you ask my three year old if my iPhone is too complicated, it's not. It's all relative.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

Jews highly value having an abundance of money for the sake of caring for their families and for helping the needy.

Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness.

There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege.

I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

I'm the original take-orders girl.

I've always loved the night and I'll like lying awake and thinking over everything in life, past, present and to come. Especially to come.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.