I've got two children, and if my voice is still out there, I want the money to go to them when I die.

Love was not in it for me at first. I dated guys because of the way they looked. And then I began to learn that it's what's inside that counts. Love to me now is understanding. It's giving.

I would love to sing with Ella Fitzgerald.

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all.

To see the unseen, you must see through the beauty of love.

Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.

Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

You want to know how Egyptians pulled the brains out of mummies. or built the pyramids, or cursed King Tut's tomb? My dad's your man.

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself

The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

Art isn't only a painting; it's anything that changes someone for the better, any nonanonymous interaction that leads to a human (not simply a commercial) conclusion.

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world.