Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.
Music should come crashing out of your speakers and grab you, and the lyrics should challenge whatever preconceived notions that listener has.
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.
The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.
I've always been adventurous. In the summertime, my mom would lock me outside of the house and say, 'Do something, and come back later.'
I believe that the dissolution of a marriage comes about by the breaking down of self-esteem.
Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.
Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are.
I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
The down-side of these huge-budget movies is that so many people have a hand in them, sometimes they come out a little more vanilla.
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
I'm interested in directing movies about situations that I've lived, so they are almost a personal essay about what I've come to believe in.
I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.
I'm such a fan girl when it comes to movies, TV and sci-fi, sometimes I can't believe I actually get to be in them.
