You have to give to be able to receive.

Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

I think the best thing your parents can do for you is to let you be yourself.

New York has a great energy, but London is better.

Dad always told me that if you're going to work on something, it might as well be something you're proud of.

Although I've watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.

I put myself under immense pressure.

I tend to write more when I travel.

As an actress, you have to keep yourself fresh and new.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

I was 18 when I got my first acting job.

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.

Shall I be'her'?

Although he didn't care much about any subject for its own sake, he cared a great deal about marks (grades or comparisons).

But I broke your heart, ” she whispers. I shrug and kiss her again. “You break it, you buy it.

I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.

Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.

I meant to do my work today But a brown bird sang in the apple tree And a butterfly flitted across the field And all the leaves were calling me.