Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.

As an actor, particularly because I'm - I would call myself a character actor. I change my look, my physical appearance and my body, my hair color, my whatever all the time for a role.

God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

But I'm looking at life, and I'm putting nothing off.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano, and dumb.

They have - they do still hit me occasionally, and it's an overwhelming grief for what - even though my life is so good now, even including going through treatment for cancer, my life is incredible.

Literature is one kind of aesthetic politics.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is like shooting the breeze and having it shoot back.

To me the most important thing is getting into a studio and making an album that is 12 or 14 amazing songs, getting up onstage, and making people happy by livening the rock.

God created seaweed… The seaweed made the world.

I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

The cinema was certainly an art, but television can't be, because it is the museum of accidents. In other words, its art is to be the site where all accidents happen. But that's its only art.

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it.

What we're always looking for is weird social issues and weird connections to make. Luckily for them, there's no shortage of material.