I think you're where you have to be and I'm not a person who wants to control things too much because I love surprises.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

I think that when you don't see the boundaries, you cross them without even knowing they exist in the first place.

I was raised with the idea of beauty in a different way. To me, it is something that really comes out of you and surrounds you.

I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

I think that emotion and good stories can cross the times.

Did a man really walk on the moon? I saw plenty of documentaries on it, and I really wondered.

I am not very good at expressing myself in a simple way so it can create mis-understandings and I hate that.

If I wake up during a dream I can usually go back to sleep and finish the story.

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

People who go out and try to be a rebel at night, Try to make up for the fact that they settled in life.

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

The capacity to become aware of the givens of our existence - such as change - and to actually welcome those as just part of our human experience releases the struggle.

There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.