Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.

One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck.

Not to bash Los Angeles, but there is always a feeling in LA of where your stock is. Are you the top of the heap at the moment or do you have the blockbuster, did you get cast in that thing?

Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it.

Canon is basically a very aggressive company. Our company works on competitive principles. It does not treat people equally, but it does treat them fairly.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.

My job, personally, is to do as much as I can to spread the warning that if we're not careful, it will end. The problem is, we don't think beyond our immediate needs.

Congress is responsible for every major change in India