Jazz is more raw than punk in a lot of ways. It's so expressive. A lot of people say to me, especially older people, 'It took me ages to get into jazz.'
I'm never going to take the view that I should say whatever I need to say in order to achieve something. Because that implies a level of dishonesty.
When I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'
They say you can take someone who was born in Africa out of the bush but you can't take the bush out of someone born there....
When people say 'stadium songs,' it's really negative. All the festival headliners, I've realised, are usually the worst bands.
What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that's always been the case. There's a difference between confidence on a record and arrogance.
...I know that if you ask me to jump I will say how high. So I will stay away from you and hope that you never ever say jump.
I do get clocked in the street. People say, 'You're an actress, aren't you?' But they don't know my name. Nine times out of 10, they don't know what I've been in.
It's the gap in the teeth. My friends say I look like Shrek - some of my friends - and you can't choose your friends, so what can I say?
So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.
We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.
When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'
Whenever people say they didn't like the main character of a book, they mean they didn't like the book. The main character has to be a friend? I don't get that.
If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'
They say time heals all, But time is our only enemy; breathe deep and find strength to smile tonight, for the morning may never come
A French proverb says ‘Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.’ To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!
I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.
People say that the Beavis voice doesn't sound like me or some other voices. Butt-Head I think sounds like me.
And realising that humour is the most powerful way to make a political statement and say the things that you want to say. And it's not used enough, at least not in the U.S.
