I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.
Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.
Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.
I was just talking to Bono the other day, and he was like, “Are you doing shows?” I’ve just been off the road for a month-and-a-half, and he was like, “You lucky girl.”
I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it’s hard to hear sometimes, because it’s a noisy world and there’s a lot of people talking to you.
I’m so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that’s the tricky part.
You don’t know what will happen from one minute to the next.
I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don’t really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.
The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
I think it’s the ego in us that screws us up.
I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you’re like, wouldn’t it be nice to have someone here with me.
Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what’s going on in the world. And it’s also important to state what we think. There’s like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that’s really messed up.
At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn’t even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.
I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.
I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people’s minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.
A lot of people, they’ve been saying to me, oh don’t get married. It ruins everything. And I’m like, damn.
I learned the cello, but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.
Here’s my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.
When I perform in front of large audiences, I’m much more comfortable, because I’ve already performed in front of tiny audiences – which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.