The worst thing about getting older is you discover that most of the performers in the shows you used to watch are now younger than you. Suddenly, everything become less believable.

Run! Life's too short to walk. Unless you don't know where you're running to, then move very slowly.

Just because 2 billion people believe it, doesn't mean it's true.

No one in the world is really over 28. I wish I had known that when I thought I was 40.

Chatting with someone who has no life experience is like consulting a dentist. You know the answers will be painful but you have to ask.

You want a partnership? I've heard a lot about partnerships. Sure. I'll partner with you. You do all the work and I'll take 80%.

If you're in your 20s now, by the time you're 75, you'll be able to live 'til you're 150. By the time you're 150 you'll be able to live 'til you're 300. See you at your 1000th birthday party!

Did I have the courage to forge a path

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

I was posing as a 9-year-old girl who was a blue-ribbon prizewinner; she rode on a Shetland pony, the small horse that was the appropriate size for her.

You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected.

Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

I saw myself as an electronic joy rider.

One day, I will be a poet. Water will depend on my visions.

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

There is no universal template that can be applied to everybody. So everyone kind of enter the process in their own way, on their own time.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.