I'm not a queen of anything, you know.

Love is like a promise. Once you break it.. it doesn't come back unless you really fight for it.

As a clown, you're letting go of all of your bullshit.

I like buying iTunes. It's instant.

I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting.

I went to England because somebody told me to, and I loved it. And, "blessed" is a silly word to use for some people, but that's how I feel. I feel blessed.

Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes.

When I did the video for "Piledriver Waltz," I was thinking about rodeo clowns, and how they're risking their lives just to keep an entire arena laughing. They're in danger!

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.

Now I am a vagabond of the universe, a drifter among spaces where the madness of things has no limits.

They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.

Many years ago Christian pioneers had to fight savage Indians. Today missionaries of these former cultures are being sent via the public schools to heathenize our children.

It is better to give blood but receive cash than the other way around.

Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destroying their faces in the amount of work they have.