You are alone with everything you love..

That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right..

I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love..

But as you say in English, c'est la vie!.

I'm happy with what I've achieved..

I don't go near the money and the money doesn't go near me..

I do like to sing to God!.

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..

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

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

I'm constantly being visually stimulated..

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off..

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical..

All the lyrical rappers I know is broke..

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But eve….

In my writing, I strive for a lyrical beauty somewhere between Tolkien at his best and Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf..

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say….

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way..