I was the third son, and the family tradition was my dad always favored the oldest child.

If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up

It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it.

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

I thought what the military was doing was unconstitutional.

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that Glen Canyon Dam at Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!

Without democracy in our homes, we will never have it in the world.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

Real love is strange and changeable… but also somehow constant.

For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

I'm looking for loopholes. (Said when caught reading the Bible.).