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

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.

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

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

You can't take love for granted! You need to be patient. And just as flowers take time to blossom, love will one day blossom in your heart!

The future is now! Don't make that second pass you into regrets.

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.

We are not what we think, or what we say, or how we feel. We are what we do.

Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

One errs as long as one strives.

I've been thinking a lot about folks denying what has happened in history, or just not acknowledging it.