It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.

Art can be engaged in the world without being specifically politically engaged.

I always feel like if someone has stage fright, I really try and say, "Listen, these people want you to succeed, they want to have a good evening. They want to see something really great. They don't want to see something crappy. They don't. They want to be at something really special."

When you meet a man who is broken, pick him up and carry him. When you meet a woman who’s broken, put her all into your arms. Cause we don’t know where we come from … we don’t know where we are.

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

I don't take compliments so well. I always hang my head and shuffle and kind of try to immediately forget.

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