I'm completely hooked on polo.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

Blessed are you, who faced many adversities. You will be strengthen and soften.

What's truly important--and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn--is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.

Sometimes I tend to worry too much and at the end of all the preoccupation nothing goes wrong.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

Elvis is iconic; a lot of performers today look to that for inspiration.

You make a film to distract people, to interest them, perhaps to make them think, perhaps to help them be a little less naive, a little better than they were.

In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

As long as I didn't have to put on the tiara and the chains and the big yellow shirt for the whole series, I was up for anything.