In New Orleans, you can pitch a rock and hit a great trumpeter..

A weird thing about being an actress is that shooting movies doesn't feel like watching movies. It feels like being in a warehouse..

Failures are infinitely more instructive than successes..

When history calls, history calls..

Thankfully, the love of those around me helped push me forward..

I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl..

The only thing I was any good at was music..

To be adored is something I recommend..

I'm constantly being visually stimulated..

I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..

Most things don't work like they are supposed to work..

I am at my best when I am scoring..

Every decoding is another encoding..

Everything was believed except the truth..

The work that I'm proudest of is the work that I'm most afraid of..

I was physically abused and I retaliated..

Meow, Meow, Motherfucker..

The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules..

For the last 20 months, I've just been going from one hospital to another..

Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional s….

Dreams are guests who ensoul our lives if we have hospitality for them..