I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

What is a man but another man's memory

If you remain dependent on your parents all your life, do not carry a wrong pretence that you are even born.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Don't bother.

Freedom... Freedom does not exist with personal responsibility!

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

We should raise the national minimum wage.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

When I began to make some money, I really wanted to have a home.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.