I've never met anyone that is their image.

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

When you're little all the things that are quirky and weird about you and that people laugh at, you find out are the things that are going to get you through

I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.

Where there is no will, there is always a way out.

At thirty either you are perfect or nothing.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person's body. I'm boring. I go to movies. I read. That's about it.

A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

I have an apartment in Brooklyn - I guess I call it my shrine. I go there to create and recoup, or hibernate sometimes, but my home is in Dallas where I live with my children.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

The myth of unending consumption has taken the place of the belief in life everlasting.

I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.