We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

So how's the putrid pile of caca doing?

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

In truth, men speak too much of danger.

Fasting is a medicine.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.