"It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers."

"I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company."

"Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge."

"Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom."

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."

"In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story."

"I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something."

"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."