If we'd had another carefree 70s, I'd have been dead. It was a little too carefree, you know? I don't know how carefree they were for me, I think I was worried then, I can't remember what about.

Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind.

But if you're doing something, show up everyday, and something good might happen - it's not going to happen if you don't show up.

I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

You've got troubles, I've got 'em too. There isn't anything I wouldn't do for you. We'll stick together to see it through cause you've got a friend in me.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

You keep wondering whether people will see that Barack Obama is a liar and not very bright.

Short people got no reason to live.

It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.

How wonderful it would be if people did all they could for one other without seeking anything in return! One should never remember a kindness done, and never forget a kindness received.

It's true that we don't handle things or we don't know about the future but to prepare our life in the most unexpected way won't hurt us.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

I love the responsibility of being a Victoria's Secret spokesmodel. It's a great life skill.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die.

I think I was five when I had my real first go-kart.