We're always hardest on our own work, I guess..

What I mean by the common good is that we understand we're all part of something bigger than ourselves, that we live in societies together and must h….

My drive is something that I don't fully understand..

Life did not stop, and one had to live..

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy..

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer..

I don't like to read novelizations of movies..

You can't find what doesn't exist, but you can create it..

Whatever one intends, the work takes on a life of its own..

In fact, after Donald Trump won, some of the relief of finishing record was to turn off all the politics for a while. There were some songs that had ….

My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism..

The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to unders….

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York..

The simpler things are, the happier they are..

This is for my G's, this is for my Hustlas..

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was….

If I'm focusing on playing and enjoying the song, then it always goes well. I get lost in the song, and the performance is so much better. If the foc….

Women don't have an expiration date..

I respect music, I do. I love it..

They will love me for that which destroys me..

Writing a song is almost like cheating-writing because you don't have to finish your sentences, you don't have to use any punctuation, no one's going….