I write in the studio.

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

I try to say goodbye and I choke Try to walk away and I stumble Though I try to hide it, it's clear My world crumbles when you are not here

I've never met anyone that is their image.

You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.

Purity. Serenity... Solitude: What you ought to uphold. But the important thing is whether you believe it.

If I've made myself clear, I've misspoken.

... some day you will have to give an account for every penny you spent.

We still have tremendous work ahead of us to ensure that women have equal opportunities in the workplace and in our society.

Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs

I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.

Families are always rising and falling in America.

The sixties were a time when ordinary people could do extraordinary things . . . !

We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.