The jazz I love is sweet and pure with raw elements, which is exactly what the good hip-hop is doing now.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.

I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

Coming, going, the waterbirds, don't leave a trace, don't follow a path.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.

I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much.