I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.
[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.
Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.
One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.
Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it.
Growing up means letting go of the dearest megalomaniacal dreams of our childhood. Growing up means knowing they can't be fulfilled. Growing up means gaining the wisdom and the skills to get what we want within the limitations imposed by reality - a reality which consists of diminished powers, restricted freedoms and, with the people we love, imperfect connections.
Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies. . . if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
Sometimes I can't read my own handwriting. That's a problem!