Be kind to every person you meet because we don't know their battles.

To test a man's character, give him power. Once people have power they will always reveal themselves.

President Mandela was never scared to admit his own mistakes and then almost jump at the opportunity of apologising and then to move on.

Loyalty and dedication can't be bought or paid to go away.

There are literally a million ways to deal with any situation and Madiba was the best teacher in tutoring me to see those ways, but lying was never an option.

Uncommunicated expectations are the shame of relationships.

War pacifies itself.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

There are a lot of grown ups who should be sent up to their rooms and told they must stay there until they learn they can play fair.

I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.

Make your plans to fit the circumstances.

The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

One way to escape the universe in which everything is a kind of media cartoon is to write about the part of your life that doesn't feel like a cartoon, and how the cartoon comes into it.

Everybody in the media thinks the New York Times is the bible. So whatever is in it is safe to run and is gospel, and is unchallengeable. It's infallible.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.