I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Bling" is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'.

Maybe to have a memory you need time for reflection, however brief, just to let the memory find a place to settle.

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

Oh, I love to lie. That's one of my favorite things in the world, coming up to somebody, especially press people, and telling them some enormous lie that couldn't possibly be true.

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South.

Stories are as unique as the people who tell them, and the best stories are in which the ending is a surprise.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.