Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

We came to the world with love and hopeWe are the creation of hope, faith and love.

I have found that most young people really want us to spell out a moral code. They may not accept it or believe it, but they want to hear it, clearly and without compromise.

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

Reality doesn't wait for your opinion, vote, or permission, sweetheart. It just keeps being what it is and doing what it does.

Milestones aren't what I think about much.

I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.

For God's sake, take care of your men. If they fire, they die!

That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

You can never be too prepared. I don't believe creativity needs to come from chaos, I find it's easier to be creative when I'm really "ready".