You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

I’m not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy trying to explain and be ashamed of things you think are wrong with me.

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good as us." Of course, that's a stupid statement.

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a "jazz musician" - it's a big responsibility.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don’t suffer if you know you’re loved and valued.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

Everything was too sharp and clear, so that I could never tell where to start- the way a map that shows too much can sometimes be useless.

When I was a teenager, I was so dumb my mamma knocked me off the porch with a broom. You wish you had so good a mamma.

The ingenuity of the average worker is sufficient to outwit any system of controls devised by management.

You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.

The world is crammed with messages. We’ll never have time to read them all.

I used to just think about what my fans wanted all the time. But it just started feeling weird to me. I want to just show everyone who I am and stick to my vision. I have to trust myself.

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms.

Please don't run away. And, um, I'd rather you didn't kick me again either.