Kill them now, cause I need some kicks. I need some kicks, I'm getting bored.

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

Take a walk on the wild side.

One chord is fine. Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you're into jazz.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Perfect Night has that magic and it has the raw energy that grabs you by the throat.

But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.

Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

Life's like a mayonnaise soda.

These are really terribly rough times, and we really should try to be as nice to each other as possible.

Be like the moon—reflect lights of love from within.

Then sail, my fine lady, on the billowing wave -The water below is as dark as the grave, And maybe you'll sink in your little blue boat -It's hope, and hope only, that keeps us afloat

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

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

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.

If one little old general in shirt sleeves can take Saigon, think about 200 million Chinese comin' down those trails. No sir, I don't want to fight them.

Don't ever be someone you're not. We are all that we are, so why try to change that?

As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.