Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

While a lot of my day, like most people's, is spent thinking about me, I can see how it's a universal thing: the competition, the clashes of personality that fuel the world and fill the world, are the exact same ones that take place just between two people. I just think politics is a form, en masse, of human relations.

If you're dissatisfied anywhere, New York is the place to be. If you're unhappy at college in Topeka, I don't know what there is to distract yourself with, you know? So anyway, I distracted myself until I decided that the distraction could be a school in and of itself.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

There are so many people that do things better than I do: dancing, singing like a black girl, singing country. Or if, while they sing, they move their arms in and around their crotch; when I sing, I play the piano and look like a little choirgirl. I'd like to mix it up like that.