I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written

The powerful men in my life have always believed in me: my husband, my son

Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Irish Alzheimer's: you forget everything except the grudges

Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

If you really think about it, the stadium can't last forever. There is going to have to come a time when it replaces.

Stand-up is not just an American thing anymore. It's global. In some places, stand-up comedy is brand new. South Africa has only had a scene for 15 years.

I don't know if I am free because I am happy or happy because I am free.

80 percent of any gang is not there to attack someone. They're there so no one will attack them.

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

It doesn't pay to try, all the smart girls know why.

I don't really consider myself a horror director or a violent director at all.

Perhaps every moment of time lived in human consciousness remains in the air around us.