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Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

I cry every chance I get.

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.

Numerically speaking, half the population cannot be a minority. Yet when it comes to women, the numbers plainly show that the mathematically impossible is the socially acceptable.

My favourite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantle piece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees. However, this is not relevant to what is currently on my mind because it concerns sloths, whereas the Branwell Brontë piece of information concerns writers and feeling like death and doing things to prove they can be done, all of which are pertinent to my current situation to a degree that is, frankly, spooky.

There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.

I've retreated to what I was originally, which is an individual songwriter.

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

My life in the town I grew up in was much quieter than 'The End of Vandalism.' Part of the reason I think I wrote it was because it was too damn quiet when I was young, and I wanted people to come out and talk. And they do. There's so much dialogue in 'The End of Vandalism.'

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Chicago - a facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade every type of dubiousness.

All movies, when they're about the music business, tend to have a bit of a wide latitude in terms of how things really were.

I think anytime you can show different colors and portray something that you haven't had a chance to do is always really refreshing as an actor.

I really love the movies of Katherine Hepburn, movies like 'The African Queen.' I love 'Midnight Run' and I suppose, to pick something out of a different genre, I love 'Aliens.'

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

I remember watching `Apollo’ with my other grandma - I have so many grandmas - and seeing these young girls sing... I knew in that moment that I wanted to sing.

I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

If you write in the Old World, and against it, your work must die, go missing, be veiled, before it can live the life for which it was destined in the New World.