I only live to love so manyFig trees but could neverSleep under one. One is tooLittle in one lifetime.

My mother was either telepathic or she had secret cameras in my apartment, and I hoped for the latter.

The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray sky, a black sky, a blue sky.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

We called [my son] Gary "Little Herschel" when he was in middle school - but then he didn't grow any taller. He ended up playing golf and being a really nice golfer.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

Singing in Spanish is much more honest, much closer to my roots. For me, Spanish is essential. I still think in Spanish, dream in Spanish. It's the melodies and arrangements that transmit meaning.

They called me the sexiest economist in America, and that was years ago, when I had hair and body mass and my teeth were shiny.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.