For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.

I love coffee. I love a midday espresso on set, just for the energy.

I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of not really knowing what we're doing sometimes, or why it matters. It's our existential crisis.

I think hip-hop does a very good job of infusing comedy and humor and wit into music, a lot more than other genres.

I will say, as a woman, when you put a mustache on, you find out a lot of things about yourself.

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

I need a template of a template

As a kid, before I got into music, I did all the drama classes, went to theater camp in the summers, so it wasn't totally a foreign world.

Rihanna has guts and she always seems to be singing from someplace honest, dark and fierce.

I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.

Respect towards humanity may get weaken when it comes about Stomach, Shelter and Sleep

It's a myth that boys don't like to gossip.

My mother kept asking me, "When are you going to do a gospel album?" And I've always wanted to do a gospel album. Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music.

As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

I'm really open to anything that's good. If I read something and it's good, and I like the director, it never really needs to be a specific type of character.

Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from having one's pride humiliated.

In 1984, my mom gave birth to my older sister, Teresa. Due to a complicated delivery, she needed a blood transfusion, and at that moment, my mom had HIV+ blood put into her body.