I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines.

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

Affirmative action has a negative effect on our society when it means counting us like so many beans and dividing us into separate piles.

Faith grows when it is planted in the fertile soil of God's Word.

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

If there were a generic one-word expression for 'one whose fear of the uncertainties of success moves him to surrender at the very moment of victory', it would be 'Republican'.

Brutality is sometimes easier to endure than ridicule.

Will you be remembered, how would you be remembered, why wouldn’t you fight for the greatest achievement ever?

I'm open to anything. I would love to play someone completely off the wall.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.