If you call someone up on a mistake - if the drummers put an extra beat in a bar or something - you have a lot more authority if you can show them how to do it right.
I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
I'm such an incredibly, stupidly sensitive person that everything that happens to me, I experience it really intensely. I feel everything very deeply. And when you feel things deeply and you think about things a lot and you think about how you feel, you learn a lot about yourself. And when you know yourself, you know life.
It pisses me off to think we're conditioned to push away bad feelings and think anything that's uncomfortable is to be avoided. When things are really bad nowadays, I recognize the value in it because it's me filling my quota- it's going to make my joy more intense later.
At my lowest moments, I think of people who come to shows. I still get very sad and sometimes I feel like I have no friends, but when that happens now, I'll think of people whose names or faces I don't know - they're my friends and they love me. I've got them. It really does save me. I still feel awkward, but that's the one thing I can grab onto at my lowest points.
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
Massachusetts is the first state in America to reach full adulthood. The rest of America is still in adolescence.
Feed the lettuce to the bunny and eat the bunny.
I believe we're entering a new era, where dynamic female leaders will have an opportunity to bring greater harmony and peace to the planet.
The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live.