What I have found is, so much of that is like a Chinese finger trap: the more you play to the dark, the more you will get trapped in the dark, and if you just play to the light and focus on the people that don't misunderstand you and focus on the audience that does celebrate you and focus on the people who aren't trying to tear you down, all that other stuff eventually erases itself because it has nothing to feed on.

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.

If we can repair things emotionally, a lot of other things would follow.

I feel an extraordinary amount of sympathy for anybody working at a major label right now because their lives are over.

When we really see each other, we want to help each other.

I wanted to feel like I could extend someone else's joy and not crush it, and that is the giant paradox nowadays of being a powerful woman: you want to live in a space of compassion and helpfulness and joy and expression, and the world is standing there, pointing the finger at you and telling you that you're greedy and domineering and attention-grabbing, and all you can do is shrug and just say, "Hopefully, someone out there understands and isn't misinterpreting."

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.