All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

I am convinced, completely convinced, that there was nothing random about [the adoption], she is the daughter I should have.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

Oh, I'm so inadequate. And I love myself!.

Being a working mother means that you are always disappointing somebody.

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

Are you willing to work for what you want?

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights.

President Obama's made the White House really the people's house. People feel like they're welcome.

There is no curse equal to the curse of idleness. It destroys the man, the group, the people, or the nation who suffer under it.

I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.

There's something interesting about being really intimate and familiar with Israel, but still being American - that really thin piece of glass between me and my experiences.

Effective people are not problem minded; they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems. They think preventively.

There are those who see a problem and there are those who will not give up until they find a solution - finding a solution is what the Full Stop Foundation is about