I'm glad I got a record contract, because all of a sudden everything you were doing before that made you a stupid person now makes you a smart person.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

My mom. She really encouraged me. That's the trouble with education: Unless you have a really supportive parent, you get left behind.

I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.

There's a side of me that identifies with Aileen Wuornos.

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

I will say that art may well be the only thing that lasts, so I guess it's worth trying.

I never know how to get off the phone, so I'm terribly admiring of people who can.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

Make heroes out of the employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

The threat of terrorism is great and with today's porous borders, someone could bring a biological weapon into our country or sneak a dirty bomb across unmanned portions of our borders.

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

I can travel anywhere in the world and I can pretty much fit in.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.

I sighed and stared off without any particular focus. "I miss him so much." "I'm sorry," she said. "Will it ever get better?" The question seemed to catch her by surprise. "I...I don't know.

Existing economics is a theoretical system which floats in the air and which bears little relation to what happens in the real world.