I think I can define my entire life, virtuosity and business philosophy down to the core fundamental that I absolutely hate being told what to do. But like any artist or any human being out there, I desperately want to be loved, and I spend my entire life trying to balance those two facts.

I think you can't have this discussion and you can't have a discussion about feminism and the consciousness of the world without having a discussion about what has happened to men lately. They're holding the other side of the bag.

It’s not easy to ask… asking makes you vulnerable.

I do what I want. I try to be nice to everybody. When I fail, I try to apologize.

There was a dance that everyone was doing that was heavily skewed with the power in one direction, but the dance was basically working, and then the dance got really disrupted with the first wave of feminism, and nobody found their footing yet - not the guys, not the women.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

If you love people enough, they will give you everything.