If you want to stay young-looking, pick your parents very carefully.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

If you fall down, get up and walk again. If you can't walk, crawl. If that idea fails, have another one It doesn't happen by accident. It takes a lot of hard work.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Success is finding something you love to do, getting paid to do it and finding someone to share it with.

Age ain't got nothing to do with how old you are.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

The music of your youth stays with you throughout your life.

The problem is when you try to impose today's standards on people living back then. It's the politically correct thing to do, but it was a different era, a different country then.

I don't make culture. I sell it.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party.

It's weird for me to try and write punk songs - I'm almost scared of it.

[It's] Rare for a first lady to be running for president.

The art world is an all-volunteer force. No one has to be here if he or she doesn't want to be, and we should be associating with anyone we want to.

... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!

And the first thing we have to do is vote. Hey, no, not just once in a while. Not just when my husband or somebody you like is on the ballot. But in every election at every level, all of the time.

Even when I'm about to die I like to sound interesting and special. It was just talk.

If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.