As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.

Well, the first year I lost my voice I didn't mind so much because I was going to have a baby and I was distracted with him anyway, I didn't even think about it that much, well, OK, this is what's happening.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.