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

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 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.

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

When a child truly understands his grand potential, he looks to the stars not simply to make a wish but to chart a destination.

Sometimes when almost everything is wrong, one thing is so right you would do it all again.

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

Live in such a way that men may recognize that you have been with Jesus.

Engagement is not appeasement. Engagement is not surrender.

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.

One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

I urge all children to listen to their mothers and fathers. My mom was helping out some kids and she didn't want to call me for all of the money; she only wanted to take care of some of the kids.