I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

People think someone's going to come from outside and cure the problem. People think a messiah will come. No. They key to success is to strengthen what's local.

Everything was burning. Today it was the bodies

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

When you are coming out, you say it's for you. But when everybody says it's not OK, it becomes about that rather than about you. It disappointed me.

For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.

If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.

I beg young people to travel.

When somebody tells you he or she is leading something, a fair question is, "What is your vision?"

You become megastars when superstars start reprising your roles.

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.