In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

It is impossible for us to think of any thing, which we have not antecedently felt, either by our external or internal senses.

Women rule the world

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.

Think about what there is to learn from your heritage, good and bad, and about what you want to cultivate and not cultivate.

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Truth provokes those whom it does not convert.

Truth is not always hard to find; it is often staring you in the face. The problem with truth is that it is hard to believe. It is even harder to get other people to believe.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.