I put out Imaginaryland, I heard a lot of, "Oh she's copying Laurie Anderson," and I was like, wait... but I don't know her music! Maybe - didn't she have a song called "Superman"?

Harmony has always come very natural to us because we started singing harmony at an early age. We heard a lot of different music growing up.

People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

The Conversation was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them.

Everyone knows about The Who, but I didn't. I knew the popular songs like "I Can See For Miles." So that was the first song I worked on because it was the catchiest and easiest.

I didn't know who Meredith Monk was, and I knew about Laurie Anderson but I didn't know her music that well.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

You broughtme your darkness& I loved youwith the radianttears of athousand suns.

I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

I think we can lower our emissions. I think the world will be better off if we did that, and we can do it without cap and trade.

Many of our newly smart would rather be found murdering their children than being kind to their parents. They would prefer to be damned for rudeness than to be snickered at for courtesy.

At times I ask myself if I shouldnt be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

Information is information; it is neither matter nor energy.