To me happiness, true happiness is when you can really dance with sad.

I'm a conduit for telling people's stories. It's a privilege.

An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila.

I'm really into moderation. Too much of anything will harm you in the end. Too much sugar. Too much pasta. I'm into drugs as a teaching tool, which is why I only take hallucinogenics. I mean, it's not like I've never done cocaine, but, on the whole, if I can't see dancing elephants then I'm not interested.

Never was a cornflake girl; Thought it was a good solution: hanging with the raisin girls.

My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

Men have periods too, they just don't bleed.