Everyone smiles, when they are with you. Please... from now on, go and help people in my place. Share your happiness with them.

Fun things are fun.

Charlotte’s dirty dishes haunted her dreams that night. She was running down a dark tunnel and close behind her plates, cups, bowls and crumbs made threatening noises.

Drug addicts had their drugs. Alcoholics had their bottles. Serial killers had their murders.

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.

Feminism means to me being comfortable with who you are as a woman and being unapologetic about it.

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.

Very often a job will come along that speaks to the place you're in as a person at that very moment. And usually once I've done it I feel like that part is over.

It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.

I don't like to comment on a specific local issue because there are plenty of people already working on the problem who know a lot more about it than I do.