I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.
You know what’s really cool? Wake up every morning, decide what you feel like doing, and do it.
I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
I suppose I'm happy to sell my time and energy, but I'm not happy to sell my initial creative time.
I was just a very dark kid. My family was complicated.
There's nothing more threatening than a powerful woman, and there's nothing more threatening to the current order of things than women powerfully owning their own narrative. It's so threatening to people, to women as well, and it's threatening the order of things.
It would nice to live in a world where art can just be art!
There are two reasons why I propose to make myself thoroughly and unashamedly happy by talking about myself. The first is that on several occasions, both in England and America, I have been told that I am a legendary character.
If philanthropy is not voluntary, it destroys liberty and justice. The law can give nothing that has not first been taken from its owner.
I do the work just because I enjoy it on the day, working with the guys. For me, it's like going to play a game of baseball: you've got your teammates, you get to do something that's fun, hopefully, and whatever happens with that stuff is in the cosmos someplace.
One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.