I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

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.

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

You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.

Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.

In the physical ascension one sees the signs upon the horizons

Although it wasn't raining anymore, the air was still heavy with water, and rain gutters were ringing all over Point Breeze.

I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.

To write is a humiliation.

We become obsessed with 'truth' when discussing statements, just as we become obsessed with 'freedom' when discussing conduct...Like freedom, truth is a bare minimum or an illusory ideal.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

I don't have to prove anything.

When you deal with nonfiction you deal with human characters.