I try to avoid barbecue potato chips. They're my weakness.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

I don't eat red meat, but sometimes a man needs a steak.

I really am a smoothie person. I love making a morning smoothie and then will drink some coffee and will not eat at all before lunch.

When I pass a flowering zucchini plant in a garden, my heart skips a beat.

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.

The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive.

I would be scared to go under the knife, but you know, talk to me when I'm 50. I'll try anything. Except I won't do Botox again, because I looked crazy. I looked like Joan Rivers!

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

We're human beings and the sun is the sun - how can it be bad for you? I don't think anything that's natural can be bad for you.

If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.

Too many books. Too few centuries.

Stop feeding the ego food, then it will stop asking for more.

I was a government employee in the morning and a writer in the evening.

Reform of the medical liability system should be considered as part of a comprehensive response to surging medical malpractice premiums that endanger Americans' access to quality medical care.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.

No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.