I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.

... drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

I'm praying that was my one little dip in the cancer pool. I hope never to have to revisit that, but I learned a lot, I'm cancer free with a bright and hopeful future.

You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.