When you realize that the baby's healthy and born, it's a release and you're so happy.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

Peace in the world depends on our relating to each other with compassion.

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

My experience of chaotic lessons has humbled me enough to know, I could have it worse than I do I now and positive enough to know I can be where I want to be, someday.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

If I talk about Charles Dance I am talking about something else, something I operate and wind up and have to make an impression with and use to transmit someone else's screenplay.

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They're light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

No one likes to be criticized.