But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

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.

Sometimes fate is what you make it, and I'm making my life with you.

Internet has grown to not only touch humans in a physical sense but also in an emotional sense.

If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter the whole face of the earth would have been changed.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

Play on, when you're losing the game. Play on, cuz you're going to make mistakes. It's always worth the sacrifice, even when you think you're wrong.

Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

A bully is fighting out of a need to dominate. And is usually unwilling to take the consequences.

That past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on some past that went before it.

How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.