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

We want to dedicate our music tonight to the great opportunity that we all have to begin to truly understand the events of the past few days and to act upon them with courage and with compassion as we make our plans to live in a completely new world.

I'm thrilled by the fact that I made something out of nothing. There it is! It wasn't there before: there it is - I made it! That's pretty powerful, and that's the power that Buddhists give to every single person.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.