I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.

Freedom should always be discussed within the context of responsibility.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.

I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well-spent.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Where there's smoke, there's bound to be mirrors.

Truth hides behind the curtain of illusion. We often get lost in illusion and forget to find the truth.

This damn ring had derailed her life. No wonder Gollum had gone insane.

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.

Most things are difficult at the beginning and they become fun, something you love, only after you've worked at them.

You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].

I don't think the clothes make me, but I make the clothes.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me

Get transported back to the seventies !