I believe in empty spaces; they're the most wonderful thing.
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
It's really irrelevant, but I wouldn't want to be stick thin. It's better to have bit of fat on your face when you get older.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
I've always been a producer - that's how I see myself first. The DJing came second as a way for me to be able to perform.
There's always haters, no matter what you're doing - whether they're complaining that everything you do sounds the same, or it's too different.
Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.
To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
Strangely, nothing makes me feel tired, fatigued, at all. I've gone days and nights without sleep, and still the mind is in such a positive space it just doesn't make you feel fatigued.
It comes down to building your own world out here on the road. It's who you surround yourself with. My band and crew are really positive guys.
A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.
To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.
I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
It's unhealthy for people to never express any kind of negativity or doubt. To have balance, you need to address that side of your thoughts as well as the positive. Otherwise, you tend toward crazy.
When the media defines something, you have to question: Is it the definition that you want applied to your culture? I'm trying to determine who's leaving the legacy, and if the legacy that is being left is a positive one.
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
