...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...

our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

There's no way to learn how to write a hit song. There's no formula for it. You just have to have it inside of you.

I was not the hot, popular girl in school.

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

Inflation is a form of hidden taxation which it is almost impossible to measure.

Folk who don't know why America is the Land of Promise should be here during an election campaign.

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

For me, acting was a way of releasing all of this stuff that I had inside - and a way for me to tell the stories of the people I knew, so that their spirit could live through me.

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.