It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I am woman, hear me roar.

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am Woman.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

One of my friends started a company in 1997, seven years before Facebook, called SocialNet. And they had all these ideas, and you could be, like, a cat, and I'd be a dog on the Internet, and we'd have this virtual reality, and we would just not be ourselves. That didn't work because reality always works better than any fake version of it.

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

I come from a family where some nights you don't know where food's going to come from. There's nights where you're going to have go to bed hungry.

I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really amazing writers. It is a fantastic creative outlet and such an amazing teaching tool. The thing I love about kids, too, is it is so imaginative and poetic.