You're always first when no one's on your side.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

Blessed are the meek, for to them we shall say "attaboy".

Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.

What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.

It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes.

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

I love to go into a movie and have no idea what's going to happen in it.

Love in my heart is a cry forever Lost as the swallow's flight, Seeking for you and never, never Stilled by the stars at night

Make it a priority to have at least eight months of living costs set aside in a federally insured bank or credit union account.

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.