The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

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

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

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

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.

Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.

Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.