I've always had a lot of respect from the people I respected.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

The children who are 'our future' will inherit a world created not just by parental devotion but by the sort of zealous, focused endeavors that can preclude good parenting.

Hugh Grant is fantastic in bed. He always has been.

A human being in this aged nation of ours is a very wonderful hole, the slow creation of long interchanging influences; and charm is a result of two such wholes, the one loving and the one loved.

I've had that my whole career. People were always hedging around the question of: Why are you so dark? What happened to you?

Books are sepulchres of thought.

The white May blossom swooned slowly into the open mouth of the grave.

I love producing, I love bringing things together.

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already.