I generally have lyrics first, but you can't help that when you're writing lyrics you start to get a melody in your head. So they come kind of simultaneously.

Somewhere along the line we stopped believing we could do anything. And if we don't have our dreams, we have nothing.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

I was the fattest baby in Clark County, Arkansas. They put me in the newspaper. It was like a prize turnip.

Getting the nomination is like gravy. Winning would be like whatever is better than gravy.

I believe in running through the rain and crashing into the person you love and having your lips bleed on each other.

I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Marketing is the devil.

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

You want to know the hardest thing about being smart? What? I pretty much always know what's going to happen next; there's no suspense.

Motherhood has taught me that love is the best gift you can ever give to your children.

When a man has learned how to remain alone with his suffering, how to overcome his longing to flee, then he has little left to learn.

Friends, you like it or not, life has a way of teaching us all these tough lessons.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

My mother wanted to be president of the United States. She wanted to be the first woman president. She was born in 1924. Instead she had eight children.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

If you've lost your faith in love and music, Oh the end won't be long...

I have been photographing the portrait of an end of an era, as machines and computers replace human workers. What we have in these pictures is an archeology.

Better it were not to live than to live a coward.