I wear short shorts. After 10 years of strenuous ballet, it's the least my legs can do for me.

It's really special to have a niece because I have a son, so I get to have a little girl, too.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I've always been a rule-follower. Even when I was a kid, I tried to do everything by the book.

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety - now that is the good stuff!

When you're supported by people, you always imagine it's people your age who will support you.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.

I think it's going to take my whole life to sort of get people to know what my perspective is.

Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.

and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

Sometimes the lines in a song are lines you wish you could text-message somebody in real life.

Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

I want someone to say, "I love you and that's all I really know." That's the girly girl in me.

I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well...

I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.

I really love 'Pocahontas.' Today I was watching 'Aladdin.' It's a classic; you can't beat it.

A little blue-eyed blonde in a red hot sweater, wants to spice my chili, I think I'll let her.

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

You just write and you don't try to make sense of it. You just put it down the way you got it.

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.

There's this cliché of always falling in love with the latest song, and I'm kind of like that.

That's one of the things I like about San Francisco. It's not like anywhere else in the world.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.

I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

The men who could not fight, in a war that didn't seem right. You let them come home, America.

Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.

Take your ass to the barber shop. Tell the barber that you're sick of looking like an asshole.

If you can be content right now, then you'll always be content, because it's always right now.

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

Let's face it, I only practice yoga because the classes are always packed with beautiful women.

It is dangerous to exist in the world. To exist is to be threatened. We must live with threats.

So is it over is this really it You've given up so easily I thought you loved me more than this

Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

That's something the kids should know about. Reading is a gateway to witchcraft and lesbianism.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I'm thinking you're on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

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