The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

You need to try to master the ability to feel sad without actually being sad.

If you're a young artist, wondering what to call yourself, consider 'multimedia artist.' It's so vague. Then, no one can say, 'Hey, how come you're a jazz person, and you're making a pop opera?

I am a New Yorker, one; I'm an artist, two; I'm a woman, three.

I genuinely have never been in an audience where most people want that person to fail. I've never been in an audience like that, and I've never seen it as a performer. Only in my dreams, in which case they are always throwing tomatoes and going, "This is the most boring thing I've ever seen."

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.

Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.