You start to realize connections between experiences and things that push your buttons, and things that have touched you in those vulnerable areas and what-have-you. And they form a little collection over time - at least I do - and as time progresses and new things are learned, you kind of sift through those things until they're air or danceable, you know? But they start as this thing that's either too hard or too soft to dance to.

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

When I finally decide that I'm ready to get out of bed, it could be the sunlight, it could be the fact that I'm awake, and, OK, first of all, I wake up in the morning because I have to go to the bathroom.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.

intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate

I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

this is her body this is her blood