I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

But when you look - and Chicago's not the only - you go to Ferguson, you go to so many different places. You need better relationships. I agree with Secretary [Hillary] Clinton on this.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

It was scary, and I knew what it was like to be an unemployed actress again.

Life, a beauty chased by tragic laughter.

It's only at this age that I can say the word 'art' without flinching.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.