I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn’t hurt so much. Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace. My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier’s College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a …
I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house. A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished. Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful. I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. All my …
But disco is the remedy for ghosts. So at 19, I faced my first blank page as a professional writer. To make a good film is an art. Gender is irrelevant when it comes to craft of filmmaking. At 19, while studying at St Xavier’s College and majoring in literature and sociology, I got my …
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That’s like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. Nothing’s better than a picnic. I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy. I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to …
The reason I namecheck restorative justice so much is because that, to me, is the utopia. It always makes me super nervous how many tech companies don’t have data ethicists. I’m a weird goofy dork. I know that if enough people shout a falsehood, people start to think it’s true and a lot of people …
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful. I’m happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It’s my favorite thing to do, for sure. I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn’t identify with black culture. Like, I didn’t …
I like peace and quiet. It’s like I’m a loner. My mom and dad are from the streets. My mom’s from Chicago. My dad’s from Memphis. My dad got out of school and got with my mom. They were hustlers. They were from the streets. They were doing their thing. The streets ain’t got no …
Nothing’s going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it. When ‘Ruby Sparks’ came out, I had to do so many interviews where I had to explain the film and my politics. And I think there was a willful misunderstanding by some people. They thought the movie was trying to perpetrate the …
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, and the by-product from one food can be perfect for making another. Food can bring people together in a way nothing else could. The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur. On many occasions, an informal buffet and casual seating offer a little …
It’s not until after you’ve been hit by a car and landed all right that the fear kicks in. Having been a stunt girl for so long, a big part of my job, when being a stunt double, was to not just make the other person look as cool as they could, but also to …
