I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown..

For months I had been trying to be less myself..

And frankly, when I made that record, hit songs were not what I was trying to achieve..

I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport..

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy..

Children listen, I'm trying to tell you something good, don't get caught up in the hood..

My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says..

Acting is a weird thing. You've gotta do it to get better, and you've gotta try things to grow..

There are paths and ruts in the spirit world as there are in the physical and mental world. One must take the tools of the spirit world and make one'….

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed..

In retrospect I wrote things about my life and my family's existence, I realized that it was a frighteningly harsh way to make a living. And I used t….

We're never trying to manipulate and mess with... When you finish the movie, you hope you did a good job but you never know..

Every film I try and make it the way I see it in my head, and it really just depends on the script and the people I'm working with or whatever intere….

Making wishes on the elephant is emotionally dangerous, because inevitably one's hopes rise abnormally high, unhealthily high, and when the wish does….

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution..

It's different as a guest as opposed to being a star of a series. A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a ….

I can't pass on an acting career to my kids. But I'm going to try to juggle both..

I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit.

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it..

Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult..

Our whole mission is about breaking the rules. Cibo Matto doesn't fit into any one genre and when people ask about what kind of genre is it, it's har….