A.Z. Black Quotes

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

Hendrix was big in England. We all became good friends and I am still in touch with Noel Redding.

Leisure is non-work for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Cleansed of its leftist residues, anarchy - anarchism minus Marxism - will be free to get better at being what it is.

Law is any application for the official use of coercion that succeeds.

If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.

I humbly apologise for reality Television.

I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.

The difference with me is that I did inhale.

But reality television is here to stay.

It is not possible to be honest in the here and now when you continue to discount and minimize your childhood experiences.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him.

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

We're one race. No matter our religion, beliefs, mother tongue, or skin color.

We have fossils... We win!

People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

I'm amazed that anyone is interested in what I have to say.

I made 50 million bucks yesterday. That's a flameout I could get used to.

My father painted, well into his 80s, what he called hard edge abstractions. It's really cool.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.

These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

I think that many things that go on in an art school have a tendency to undermine confidence, and that shouldn't be part of the ballgame, ever.

Some people only look at the good stuff and some people only look at the bad stuff.

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another.

No doubt metaphors are dangerous- and perhaps especially so in philosophy. But a prohibition against their use would be a willful and harmful restriction upon our powers of inquiry.

Internet fame is like regular fame only without all the annoying 'money' and 'power.'

Super excited about things I'm going to do; never excited about things I'm actually doing.

The senior bankers have obviously decided that it is in their financial interest to repeatedly violate the law.

The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

I don't think I'm the worst singer, but I don't think I'm the best singer.

Some promises aren’t worth keeping.

You are either free or not free

I want the world to recognize with me the open door of every consciousness

Trees're always a relief, after people.

When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier.

It is easy to be clever if you leave something important out.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies.

I cured with the power that came through me.

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.