Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism, ...

Sure relationships include arguments, but pain is not a side-effect of love.

Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog?

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

The reality is that we do not have an air traffic control system that is smart enough and technologically capable enough to be able to handle that kind of demand.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Our belief in God is not blind faith. Belief is having a firm conviction something is true, not hoping it's true.

Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.