The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

I found it more pleasurable to write something, sing a melody over it. At a very young age, I kind of honed my writing skills, I guess.

Music has been more, you know, the only thing I've ever known.

I just never doubted myself. I always knew I was going to do something.

I work, to this day, from morning to night, seven days a week. I'm always working two, three years ahead of my own timeline; I'm a workaholic.

I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff.

I started out on guitar when I was nine years old, and I started playing bars and stuff when I was thirteen, and I've been playing ever since.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness.

I think a person permeates a spot, and a lost presence makes the environment timeless to me, keeps an area alive. It pulsates because of that.

Control your inner dialogue. Talk to yourself positively all the time.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

If you tell someone a secret, and ask them to keep it secret, you are asking them to display a discretion you are unable to display yourself.

You're literally sized up with measuring tape as a 13- or 14-year-old girl. I wanted to opt out of that experience.

We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365.

You know, I hear all these things about women's rights.

This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.