I don't have any children. I just have a cat, to my parents' dismay.
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just weren't characters I looked up to and identified with.
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.
The most awful museums are in China. They have magnificent stuff on display and just the worst way of displaying it. They just don't spend money on lighting and installation.
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
'Ghost Hunters,' they like to go out and disprove everything and just wave a bunch of equipment around for a couple hours.
Transposons are just small pieces of DNA that randomly insert in the genetic code. And if they insert in the middle of the gene, they disrupt its function.
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.
I wrote my senior essay on the Santa Fe Writer's Colony and my dissertation on sacred landscapes - the Grand Canyon, the Dakota Badlands. As a setting, I love the West. I just love that western landscape.
When I would go over to friends' houses, and they would be zoning out to Mario Brothers, I just found it the most distasteful thing.
The subconscious doesn't distinguish sarcasm and jokes. It just accepts what it hears. That's the power of words.
Anyone who has been the victim of the social-media furies knows just how distorting and dishonest those furies can be.
When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.
I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space.
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
I've got four dogs, and I just don't do dog doo. I'm a diva when it comes to that.
I just think that the whole diva thing is a misrepresentation of who I am.
