There is irreducible chance in the universe.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

Make life an art rather than art from life.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

Obviously, they're all a gang of idiots. But, you know... live and let live.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

The future is deterministic in principle, but not in practice.

It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.

I’m not interested in teaching books by women.

Working with food was fraught with anxiety when I was a girl. Like all farmers, we were at the mercy of the weather, and we lived in fear of crop failure.

The idea of a bowed and terrified liberal minority during McCarthy's 'reign of terror' is poppycock. Then as now, all elite opinion was against McCarthy.

The possibility of an Oscar is something I definitely think about and the fact that I can even say that is just a blessing. It's something I would be incredibly honored to be a part of.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

I knew about AIDS. My friends were dying right, left, and center. I did a record with Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight. I did a couple of benefits.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond... You - what have you done?

The guitar's not all that expensive either, when you compare it to gettin' a toothpulled or something.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

I love improving, I love being creative and I love being my own boss.