I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

I think Obama is possibly the most dangerous and destructive president we have ever had

A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.

Do not categorize about music. You take each musician at the time and open yourself to that musician.

I was introduced to jazz, and that's become a basic concern and passion of mine ever since.

My parents were Orthodox Jews but not very regular Orthodox Jews. I was bar mitzvahed and all that. But God was hardly ever mentioned in my family. Franklin D. Roosevelt was.

The media ignores what is really going on.

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact.

What we have now in America is a surveillance society.

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.

On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

Isn't it amazing how much better you listen when you are in need?

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

I see stardom very clearly as a construct that's been created in order to sell things.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

A line, once crossed, can never be uncrossed.

I've got nothing against any individual American, except that there aren't any. They're always Irish-American, African-American... There's never an American-American you can blame.

While people are free to draw different conclusions from the facts, there should be no debate over whether the American public is entitled to have all of the facts.