I like mindless disco... they say the lyrics are stupid and repetitious. So what's wrong with that? So is lying in the sun. Not everything has to be serious.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

This is the feeling that gives a man true courage-the feeling that he has a work to do at all costs; the sense of duty.

Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.

If Donald Trump wants to fire somebody for not getting Obamacare repealed, he should fire himself.

Discovery begins by finding the discoverer.

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books and a total ignorance of men.

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

There were wonderful moments when I was singing for the first time in the Olympia Theatre and I was pregnant with my son, which was very, very strange for a singer.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.