I'm not angry at anyone.

I think you create your own hipness.

But my attitude about it is I have miles to go before I sleep.

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

I mean, on the food chain, do instruments really rate? I don't think so.

I adore being with Roberta. I adore being in her spiritual light. I adore being close to her talent and gifts.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

I never want to fake it. That's my whole thing.

Trends don't mean very much to me. They come, they go, they turn around.

feminism is for everybody

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

Magnus shrugged. "He also made inappropriate amorous advances to a startled grandmotherly sort selling flowers, an Irish wolfhound, and innocent hat stand in a dwelling he broke into, and myself.

My own momma turned her back on me, and that's my momma.

My Maserati does 185, I lost my license, now I don't drive.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?