I spent most of my adult life as someone's mother and the rest of my life trying to make sure that children are safe. So this to me is - we wrote Hell Is For Children in 1979.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

You're the Picasso of pain.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

Truth is a matter of PerspectiveThere will be my truth and your truth and as Universal truth doesn't exist.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance.

I thought 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' was so interesting the way it was made and the texture of it.

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal.

Unless the company becomes obsessed with constant change for the better, gradual change for the worse usually goes unnoticed.