My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

I had to break to pieces, so I could reassemble even stronger.

I don't regret my past but I regret not doing enough to achieve my goals today. Today is the only opportunity to make tomorrow a success.

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

It's fun, in a way, to explore what's risky in one's life.

Why was love so easy for some people and so hard for others?

Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.