My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.
I am very picky about my people and my beer.
What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.
It was hard to work and work and work and not get your music played on the radio.
Now I can make a thousand dollars a night at a club.
My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.
I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that's not true. Those songs may just be the woman I am.
I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.
In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always something familiar they can grab onto.
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations.
I look really odd in jeans and a hoodie - it doesn't feel or seem right.