I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

Art thou lonely O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

Better a humble heart, a lowly life. Untouched by greatness let me live - and live. Not too little, not too much: there safety lies.

I was like, wait a minute. When I hear my sisters' names, I want to have a joyful feeling in my heart about it.

The adrenaline gets pumping and you just got to forget about [injuries] and play.

I'm not pretending to be somebody who's got really limited craft skills. I just am a person who's got really limited craft skills.

Live as a man. Die as a man. Become a man.

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.