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

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

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.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

Life does not despise the discipline.

Commerce is the equalizer of the wealth of nations.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any identity or self-image of themselves as thinkers.

The cold, basic truth is that you are a vital and necessary part of this world

Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.

Pure love transcends the body. It is between hearts. It has nothing to do with bodies.

I know the cause of all human disappointment -- worldly prejudice.

In this world the one thing supremely worth having is the opportunity to do well and worthily a piece of work of vital consequence to the welfare of mankind.