I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

As a singer I tried on all these hats, these voices, these clothes, and eventually out came me.

A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.

The hotel was guest-friendly with hourly rates and had enough room to swing a cat, if it were a small cat and you wanted to swing it.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

Literary readings aren't going to shake their reputation as the added-fibre of our entertainment diet until the people who organize and participate in them snap out of this mentality.

The solution to the problems of marriage and parenting is simple. Spend more time with the people you care about the most.

Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.

When I was in high school, we were all laboring under the illusion, or maybe it was a reality, that everyone in our school was a virgin.

I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.

I completely understand the responsibility I have in continuing the sonic style that I have created.

Kick-start your brain. New ideas come from watching something, talking to people, experimenting, asking questions and getting out of the office!