No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to. It's all I really have that belongs to me and I'm going to say what happens to it. And it's going to stop. And I'm going to stop it. So. Let's just have a good time.

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is capable of going directly to the source of the mystery. It doesn't have to explain it. It can simply celebrate it.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

Success is always something that you have to recover from.

Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family, they just are.

I feel that I speak the musical language.