If you send your work to the magazines, you may be in for a shock. You may get a rejection note. The worst kind. A printed form. And probably you will be shattered. Shattered.

We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

Better to die than live in sleep.

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

Some girls say they don't feel comfortable in flats, they only feel comfortable in heels; I am not one of those girls.

I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.

I never aspired to be a television producer and a movie director, and I'm shocked that this idea is still going on.

I changed the pressure from negative to positive. So, instead of thinking everybody wanted to see me fail, I decided everybody wanted to see me win, since I wanted to see myself win.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

The poverty of the West is far more difficult to solve than the poverty of India.

I think you should be serious about what you do because this is it. This is the only life you've got.