I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality.

The heart of a woman will never be found in the arms of a man.

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.

And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano.

The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.

You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.

God holds key to open all doors.

Putin is a tough guy. I met him once.

All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign

You need at least six or seven years to understand the philosophy and concentration of karate to know to clean your spirit of everything and dedicate your mind and body to the sport.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.

Booty is just a ghetto expression, and I'm just a booty star.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.