I only put an album out every two or three years.
No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.
We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
Sex and intimacy are not the same: You can have sex all your life and never be intimate with a person. There has to be empathy in the relationship. You have to enjoy seeing through their eyes. When you're with them, you're there and not thinking about what you're gonna do tomorrow.
Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out.
I think what's happening in the world - there's nothing more dangerous than a wounded beast, and the patriarchy is wounded.
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book that flirted with thriller and fantasy and even science fiction. I wanted the coming-of-age story and the love story to be about "outsiderdom" - one of the themes I am most interested in.
Medical school education and post graduate education emphasize thoroughness.
You can only dance for so long, but you can act until you're dead, so. . . I fell in love with it and I want to keep doing it and pushing myself.
Sibling relationships are complicated. All family relationships are. Look at Hamlet.