In the struggle for survival, the cutest win out at the expense of the less cute because they appeal more to celebrities and, through them, to a live television audience.

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.

a single poemthe thing that can keep melight on my feet, when my soul isheavy with sorrow.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Excellence has a loud mouth

It's very rare that you can be in a career for as long as I have and still feel like you're constantly learning and coming at it from an almost childlike perspective.

All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.

It's tough to play the right chord on the instrument when there's someone out there who wants to kill you.

I'd really want to - just from my own experience as an artist working with a writer, I'd want to do everything I could to tailor it to the artist I was working with.

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

I'm a therapist and that fascinates people because they think I carry secrets.