I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Listen more to the other players on the bandstand than you do to yourself.

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

I am only about winning and getting better.

The mold of our fortunes is in our own hands.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

What about good small roles for women? I've told my agent, if there are two great scenes in a film, I don't care, if it's something with that great edge to it.

Little Red was a tender young morsel, and the wolf knew she would be even tastier than the old woman.

As part of my efforts to fight identity theft, I worked with my colleagues on the Financial Services Committee to strengthen consumer protection with a reasonable notification requirement.

Its not like you make a decision and everything inside you is 100 percent happy.