I don't need protecting. I am not the girl you save. I am fine.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

I think life is about falling in love with the right person, shopping, eating our favorite desserts and traveling a lot.

I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine ... and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

Let me hear your body talk.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.

Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Overflowing thanksgiving

It is always an attractive moment when curiosity takes hold.

There are at least four distinct lines of proof in the Bible that the Holy Spirit is a person.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

The entire universe will eventually disintegrate but by then I hope to be in a safer place.

Some are masters of illusions, some are ministers of trade, all under the same delusion, all their beds unmade.

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.