I once asked my father what he wanted me to be. To my horror, he said, 'sociologist.'

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

Maybe the most that you can expect from a relationship that goes bad is to come out of it with a few good songs.

I think it's a great shame that America stopped being a republic and became an empire.

I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.

I serve black tea, which I call Froggy tea. And I have green teas and all sorts of nice teas. I'm serving tea all the time.

Bad behaviour makes men more glamorous. Women get destroyed, thrown out of society and locked up in institutions.

The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.

If you want something bad enough, then do something about it!

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

You have no idea what hangs in the balance of your decision on what to do with the burden God put in your heart.

Every movie is unknown.

There are no limitations to any of our dreams.

You know, we are one nation under a god. Yes, you were right. An angry, crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms.

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield.

Democrats, too often, take blacks for granted, and Republicans, too often, simply ignore black voters.

A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color