People keep asking me when I'm going to start singing instead of speaking. I can't sing! I'm rubbish! Why don't they believe me?

All my favorite songwriters are American - Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Jeffrey Lewis.

It's impossible to live in peace with your inner-self without appointing integrity as the author of your daily decisions and actions.

Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.

What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic.

Effective immediately, transgender Americans may serve openly, and they can no longer be discharged or otherwise separated from the military just for being transgender.

It's so hard to get our goods into China. And when we do get in they charge us a huge surtax. They call it a surtax or a tariff. I call it a tax.

And people coming up asking for autographs, there's only one time when it kind of bothers me: when I'm eating.

Frankly, I do not know how to effect a permanency in American foreign policy.

The users space is lived - not represented or conceived.

I can remember the first face-lift show that came on. I rang up everyone - are you watching? I'm watching.

Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.