Singers, musicians, and songwriters don't want to use the word "acting" because we want it to be more real than that - we want it to come from us: naturally, truly, really.

I don't care how somebody gets their education, as long as they have one.

I do use reality because I want my work to feel real, I want it to feel heartfelt. I don't want to make it up and have it sound corny or unrelatable.

Ten minutes before you go onstage and you begin singing that torchy blues song, you may just be drinking a glass of water and brushing your teeth and doing some deep breathing.

I was brought up in the Christian church and I studied in the teachings of Jesus. I believed in caring for others and trying to be kind. It's something I still have to work on every day.

Things are changing. They need to change more. It should not be of any note that a woman does something, because women do everything.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

If you just take one foot in front of the other without any protection, you may end up falling off the fence.

The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

Feminism has nothing to do with partisanship.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

Your lifestyle is fulfilling a prophesy

For peace, let us teach humanity tolerance and nonviolence.

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer.

That takes a lot of confidence to let your actors come up with something that could be theoretically funnier than what you had envisioned originally.

A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.

For the innocent, the past may hold a reward. But for the treacherous, it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

A woman needs a stronger head than her own for counsel - she should marry.

None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty