I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.

By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.

We have a world for each one, but we do not have a world for all.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

Can I remember "I remember lots," I say. How much of what I remember is true is another matter.

The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.

You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me.

It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people... This is a people's task.

When German companies take over firms in India, it is seen as normal. When an Indian buys one or two firms in Germany, that is something special.