Rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

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

Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.

If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.

I drive well! Says who your mom? No actually, she won't even get in the car with me.

In some ways, I am actually quite optimistic - I believe in the possibility of redemption and forgiveness.

Vegetarian is the New Prius!

Just because a cat has kittens in the oven, that doesn't make them biscuits.

Big institutions in this imperial state, in this evil US empire, prepare their politicians to become criminals.

I'm not focused on the outrageousness. I'm just focused on being funny, and raising my kids. I don't even read the newspaper, I don't read that crap.

Half-heartedness never won a battle.

Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self.