There are two ways to wake up. You can wake up thinking about what you know, or you wake up thinking and saying 'What can I learn?.' That's a very different approach.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.

Anyone who doesn't belive in Faeries, isn't worth knowing.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr King in the 60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.

There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.