The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.

My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

Without music I would never, ever have travelled anywhere.

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.

A positive attitude from you tends to produce a positive attitude toward you.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

Present to inform, not to impress. If you inform, you will impress.

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that.

I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

Long for what is real. You will then have no time for worrying over what may never happen.

I'm not staring. I'm observing. . . . And what do you observe? . . . A brave young woman who has always fought for what was right, even when it was unpopular.