"I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No."

"God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room."

"Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends."

"I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap."

"This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact."

"Old age is just a record of one's whole life."

"If misery loves company, misery has company enough."

"One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead."