I could turn up the volume on their songs and that loudness matched all my panic and fear, anger and emotions that seemed up until that point to be uncontrollable, even amorphous.

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.

Joy is the fountain of youth.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty-six varieties of cheese?

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.

What mankind can dream research and technology can achieve

No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.

Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.