I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.

I have so much respect for policy makers and diplomats, but I could never be a politician because of the way they dress!

I learned how to speak English watching television.

TV and film has defined my entire life.

...where your mind goes...energy flows

I spent a college semester in a small town in Italy - and that is where I truly tasted food for the first time.

I was studying to be a legal secretary when I was called to audition for 'Ken.'

What’s the difference between you and God? God never thinks he’s you.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all.

Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?

In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless these be of their own individual making.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.