It's too heart-wrenching doing the solo thing. I throw myself into it and get so excited, and then 2000 people buy it and you're, like, 'Oh. I guess it's not that good after all.'

It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.

I've always gravitated towards songwriting that happens easily and spontaneously, because those have always been my best songs.

I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.

It's one thing to be twenty and touring the world, but doing it in your forties, you wake up with aches and pains.

If I believed in hell, I'd definitely be going there.

If I was in charge, I'd keep doing The Go-Go's forever, but it's a band so everyone has their say.

Badfinger were a great band

I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.

The Go-Go's were like my first babies.

On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends.

The Holocaust story has been told and retold so many times.

Someone who knew me well once accused me of being unromantic. And that's probably true: I don't trust romance.

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

We need metaphors of magic and monsters in order to understand the human condition.

We figure great careers aren't made. They're experienced.