Music has always been a part of my life. I make music all the time.

I think there's an innate sexuality that is attached to vampires and werewolves. It's passionate and sexual, undeniably so.

I know that you have to be reserved about certain things in your life.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

Id rather be with Dracula than the Wolfman.

I grew up playing classical piano and percussion.

Today's imaginary band name: The Significan't.

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Music informs my work so intensely. The better actor I become, the better pianist I become, and vice versa.

I've always done a few things at once. I've always been a musician and an actor, at the same time.

People don't recognize me from gig to gig. They have no idea. But, that's really what I strive to do. I strive to stip myself down completely and build another human and become them.

There is no honour in dying of something. I would rather die for.For love, for respect, for peace.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

If you're the only hot dog stand in town, you're hot dogs don't have to be good.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart.

To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.

Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.

More strategies fail because they are overripe than because they are premature.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

Even as a dope fiend mama. You always was a black queen mama.