We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.

Soho has got to be at its centre. It's got such a history for rock, pop, poetry, jazz, writers, all those things, and I think it should be valued as such, and protected as this centre for bohemia.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.

I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... i'd actually rather die than be a celebrity slime!!!

I was a magnet for people who want to take advantage of people like me, who think they're part of this life but they're not.

I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process.

Hope is the desire to bloom, but faith believes and visualizes the bloom.

‎"If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.

You enter a book as if you are setting out on a journey and, if it is a good book, you will be a different person when you reach the end.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don’t think I was a very good actor when I did that.

Why do the right wing media so assiduously scrutinize the words of a grief filled mother and ignore the words of a lying president?

Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying.

I love sushi, I love fried chicken, I love steak. But there is a limit to my love.

Economic control is not merely control of a sector of human life that can be separated from the rest; it is the control of the means for all our ends.