I don't think there's any problem with working with a songwriter or a producer, but I just don't think you should completely hand it over to them.

I think that the loss of confidence in yourself to make good music is what being jaded is.

I think it's fine for a singer to sing someone else's song. But the thing I don't like is when a singer that can write songs starts getting someone else to do it for them.

When I see joggers go by I shout "Jim Fixx is dead. Fats Domino lives!"

One thing about costume design - and I think design in general - but especially costume design, is people have a misconception that it's very glamorous work.

God draws straight with crooked lines.

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.

Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.

It was a debacle which swept the Columbia Plateau.

I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent”s Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

When you get up, the night and day is a contradiction. But you get up at 4 a.m. — that first blush of blue is where the night and day are trying to find harmony with each other.