What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?" "You'd think so.

I think 'Saturday Night Live', starting in the 1970s, really gave women an outlet to be funny. A lot of those women went on to have film careers, from Kristen Wiig now to Tina Fey and Gilda Radner.

I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.

I've never made a secret of my homosexuality.

I think we're going to have to forget about the radio and just go back to word of mouth.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

Even the purest of teachers will face bitter criticism from those who feel threatened by him.

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

I became the singer by default. I didn't know if I could do it. We tried other people, but couldn't find anyone we liked.