When I was 10, my parents really valued success in the arts, and I thought if I was a famous 'something artistic, ' that they would love me more.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist.

I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are.'

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.

I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

I'll be the songwriter for pop stars and then they can be the front person and I don't have to be famous.

He was my best friend and I needed him.

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

No, I don't, like, play an instrument or anything.I'm just...well, you saw me at the beginning there. I was the guy that fell down and died.

They say you can never step in the same river twice. New water flows in, replacing the old and continually renewing the river. The Senate is the same.

When you have a great idea, and don't rush it, things can work itself out.

In the sense that anarchy equals freedom, yes. Anarchy means freedom, but it also means chaos.

I know that I have a special stomach.

If that was good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.

It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it – a costly myth

Oh what fools we mortals are.