Writing a lyric is writing a lyric, whether it's sung or recited. Perhaps the question to ask should be, has playing in a band for three years affected you? The answer to that is you bet.

Race, and the discussion of it brings out the bad, the good and the crazy in us.

When I leap, I briefly see the world as it is and as it should be.

Cynicism is a form of obedience.

It's sometimes hard to know who's choosing whom - the poem, the song, or the writer.

The word of God is a light unto my path.

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition.

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully. To learn structure in short, is to learn how things are related.

This is a way you can learn about someone through very stressful situations. That is when a person is either gonna shine or falter.

The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.

I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.

I wish at times I had finished school just to say I had.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.