I would never want to discourage anyone from listening to the news, heaven forfend. But I thought, you know, when I'm recommending music to people I like to recommend stuff that I think they'll like.

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.

Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.

Immediately after the Olympics, I was pretty fatigued.

There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.

Let others lead small lives, but not you

Alas! poor human nature, pity, if hard pressed, degenerates into contempt.

Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money

one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

An answer in words is delusive; it is really no answer to the questions you ask.