It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of.

If I were going to put my money on it, I would bet that by 2050—hopefully earlier—we’ll have found that more than 80 percent of all human cancer is caused by infection.

In my family in particular, I think, there was a sense we have to work twice as hard.

Not even Carol knows firsthand how it feels to be hurt in such a way by someone who's supposed to protect you

As far as my opinion on galleries, I think they are a great thing. I see them as another outlet. I'm sure by now you've figured out that I do my work for everybody to see. That's the whole point.

And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes.

I am willing to learn how to take good care of my body.

When I'm on the road with concerts, people ask me to autograph my CDs, but more and more they come up with the cookbooks.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

Our busy age does not always have time to read, but it always has time to look.