You might say that the universe plays the blues.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.

We who are residing in a foreign country, away from the immediate scene of action, perhaps can feel more deeply than those at home the evil effects of the present distracted condition of our country.

I think that once you have a fair idea where you want to go, your first move will be to apply yourself in school.

Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.

Oh, how daily life is. (Ah, que la vie est quotidienne.)

As a boxer I took the liberty of using not only my fists, but also my head.

Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all.

My first official music video for "Who Am I." It's getting crazy traffic and a lot of hype. I got sponsored by a company called MATIX because of it.

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can