No one thinks Las Vegas is real; it is illusion, but visitors willingly suspend disbelief and pretend.

Las Vegas is still socially sanctioned deviance. Its brand is just more comfortable to more Americans than it used to be.

Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

Las Vegas is the therapeutic ethos of our time run amok, our socio-psychological promise to ourselves to be eternally young writ large on the landscape of aging self-indulgence.

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

God is spirit. The spirit dwells in a body. We are the Holy temple.

It wouldn't be mind control, if you will know you've been under mind control.

He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel.

He wanted more, as did I, but we still had a ways to go. I wasn’t a tease and my demands seemed pretty reasonable: always be honest and try not to eat me. ~ Sam, Living Violet

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

I was going through a break up. I was depressed... I really did need to do something. Recording an album was a great escape. I don't know what would have happened if I wouldn't have started to work.

That's why I like the scenes where we're just in the kitchen having breakfast, because it's the interaction between people. The chaos.