The line is very delicate and fine between being what one might call sane or insane, well or unwell.

As a writer, you look for someplace to start. Once you have a beginning and you've written the first two sentences, nothing else will ever change it.

Every straight man I know is a feminist. They wouldn't be my friends if they weren't.

Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.

By the time I was about ten, I had started to lose faith with church ways. I was educated in some ways by my high school government and history teachers.

My daughter could do and be anything, without having to fight to get through the glass ceiling. Without having it be so extraordinary. If my daughter went to produce a soundtrack for a movie, there would be nothing extraordinary about a girl doing it. When I did it, it was highly unusual.

I don't understand that about Taylor Swift, or about Joan [Mitchell] - how can she not say she's a feminist?! People don't understand what the word means. It simply means equal rights before the law.