You have to leave room for the other person's ego.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

The only person I really believe in is me.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

The only thing I really wanted to be was a beatnik, and look what happened: I ended up being in a band.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

Great faith, Great confidence.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

I don't like making a film and having the actors in character too much in magazines and on the net and everything else. Because you want to keep something back.

I think I have broken into the mainstream, and I think that may happen in a broader way, but I want to do it on my own terms, not become a standard producer.

Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.

Set your goals high and go far. Don't put off tomorrow what you can do today.

Commit to becoming breathtakingly great in all you do. And that's what you'll become.

The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

I never eat before breakfast.