I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.

Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.

I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.

Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.

David Bowie was awesome the easiest, coolest interview I have ever done.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

The moment of existence is miraculous.

People think you are an orphan when you are a child, and don't believe that old people can feel that they are orphans.

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

I did some songs for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. I had done a jazz album of Roxy songs, and they used bits of it in the film. It would be nice to score a movie one day.

flattery would be worse than vain; there is no consolation in flattery.

Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

We have the Google family calendar. Before a week starts, my wife and I sit down to decide who's driving who to school or when can we go out on a date.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.