For women in their 30s, it's so hard to get good parts
All my songs are where I am.
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.
I would like to hear from Chancellor Merkel what she was thinking when opening the borders. I cannot imagine at all what it was.
Some psychologists argue that the idea of God is a response to our emotional needs, but this presumption is backwards. Our emotional fluctuations are a psychological response to our lack of love for God. If God is everything, what else could we possibily want?
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.