On some of my darkest days, Lucifer's the one who comes and gives me an ice cream.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or musi

Self-introspection is the way to improve any company, any marriage, any nation. And any job-hunt.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.

Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.

You have to solve a problem that people actually have. But it's not always a problem that they know they have, so that's tricky.

I think the most inspiring thing that Americans can do for the rest of the world is struggle against the evils in our own society.

I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.