"I was one of I think three white girls in my school. So, I was very much an outsider. And plus I was Jewish and all of my friends were black and Baptist because they listen to the coolest music. We were all listening to Ray Charles and what was then called race music."

"When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record."

"It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers."

"At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about."

"We have met the enemy and they are ours."

"You're working on being a father, so that is something that when you experience it you'll understand the profundity of wanting to protect something dear to you."

"If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you."

"The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive."