You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet

Happiness will be there if you want to be happy.

I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films.

One life matters - especially to the one whose life it is.

Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one president too late.

Prisons are woefully ill-equipped for their current role as the nations primary mental health facilities.

I had only ordinary capacity but extraordinary persistency.

Curvy is something to be proud of.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.

The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.