I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

Think of the air you breathe as love. Changes everything.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this.

People have more fun if they don't eat so much they have to be taken home in an ambulance.

We're all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.

I love being on tour; I love being on the road. Its the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it; I love it.

My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.