There's no better way to process pain than to write.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

You know what Marshall needs to do. He needs to stop being sad. When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead. True story.

Like an energy even an opportunity cannot be destroyed, if you don't accept, it goes to someone else.

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence.

Imperial Teen is more like four people who like each other playing music.

Media are focused on comments Michael Jordan made about race which appear in my book. He made those comments years ago, talking of his youth

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters.