I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

The songs become the show, which is how it should be.

I don't have the inclinations that other people seem to have as far as the business is concerned.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

I don't like what the radio plays for the most part.

MP3's are perfect.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

Good taste - that's all you really need when you're playing an instrument.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.

I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.

Most of the younger people I knew didn't seem to have a handle on things; they hadn't found their place, they didn't understand how the world works, they didn't understand how to treat other people, and they didn't know how to stop thinking about themselves.

That's my dream job, to be able to mail songs out to people who want to hear them. Paste my face on them and not travel all over the world trying to sell them.

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

We didn't really swallow much of the Jesus thing, but we got the vocab.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I've always chosen my band members based on their sense of humor. It might sound stupid, but it means not only are they fun to live with on a tour bus for years, but humor implies intelligence.

I'm beginning to think I have two years encountering sexism without really realising it.

Men are allowed to write songs about people and women are allowed to write songs about women.

I don't mind what the market is, but why is it vapid? If they're such a bunch of idiots, why don't you show them good music instead? They're not going to know the difference.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

I have to play as much of the game as I allow myself to get the music heard. But it's not unlike the rest of the world, so I'm not as up in arms about it as I could be.

Popular music sucks so bad right now.

Love; that self-love a deux.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

Of course, we didn't survive to play all the way through the '90s, so I can say that - as I said, everybody in the band was aware of this, and we trying to figure out ways to make it different.

Disrespect is fatal to a relationship.

My shopping habits... I am not very brand-conscious about clothes. I buy whatever looks good on me. Likewise, I don't just shop only in malls or high-end stores.

When state funding for Irvine public schools began to diminish some time ago, my Irvine Company colleagues helped me to provide private funding support for continuation of basic science, art and music programs that had been eliminated by lack of state funding.

Skill is a function of chance. It's an intuitive best-use of chance situations.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.

The minute those two little particles inside a woman's womb have joined together, billions of decisions have been made. A thing like that has to come from entropy.

That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.

And if at first you don't succeed, then dust yourself off and try again!

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me.

Weston Bakeries is proud to support local children's charities across Canada. We believe the more we invest in our kids' futures today, the better our communities will be tomorrow.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

The movies I made early on may not have been great, but they were all commercially successful.