“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.”

I feel the 21st century is another new age. Not only can we collaborate again with nature, but we have to. It’s an emergency.

All we had ever heard about record company people is that they were vampires and criminals…and they killed Elvis Presley.

It’s incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care of themselves.

I love being a very personal singer-songwriter, but I also like being a scientist or explorer.

With tons of chaotic supply on the internet, you’re going to have people who become very good at being curators or stylists. It’s the same sort of people that I used to go to record shops for.

I don’t like records that are the same from beginning to end, that are too styled and slick.

Love is a two way dream.

People that complete other people’s vision are understated.

I’ve always appreciated working with people I have chemistry with, who are friends, and where you feel that the work is growing while you are getting to know each other better.

I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up, and kill it in the evening.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

When I was 18, science, physics, and math were my favorite. I was a bit of a nerd – the only girl with a lot of boys at chess championships.

I miss you, but I haven’t met you yet!

I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.

I have always had a certain song in my head, a certain chemistry of sounds.

Our times seem to be so much about redefining where we are physical and where we’re not.

I hope it won’t come as a surprise to anyone that a big part of male homosexual behavior is interest in young boys.

Every male in the world thinks he’s an excellent driver. Every copper who’s ever had to pick an eyeball out of a puddle knows that most of them are kidding themselves.

Male genitals are still called “the tree of life” by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality, are as unlike as yin and yang.

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey.

Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.

I have never consciously exploited the fact that I am a woman. I wouldn’t dare try that even if I knew how to. I have too much respect for my male colleagues to think they would be particualrly impressed.

Nancy [Kassebaum] and I worked on a women’s health agenda when I first came. Women were not included in the protocols at NIH, the famous study, ‘take an aspirin a day, keep the doctor, you know, a heart attack away.’ It was done on ten thousand male medical students.