Sometimes I get ideas for lyrics in anyplace, but I work a lot in the studio. So I collect little bits of lyrics. I go through the box of lyrics I have and see if something fits.

I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.

I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.

I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.

This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.

Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

We only dream of images we already have inside of us.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Had middle class black women begun a movement in which they had labeled themselves "oppressed," no one would have taken them seriously.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

In France, history is paralyzing.

We are not diminished when someone else is added upon.

For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.

I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.