People overthink flowers. They are afraid to mix and match, so they don't do anything!

Think beyond the vase! If you have a vase of flowers on a dining table for a quick dinner party, think about scattering flower petals, leaves, or even fruit along the tabletop.

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.

I love paperwhites - they smell heavenly and you can often pick them up from a big home improvement store garden center already planted in pretty terra cotta pots.

Not if you like lies so much you want to live one

From my writer's workshop, "Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!

All art is a kind of confession more or less oblique. All artists if they are to survive are forced at last to tell the whole story to vomit the anguish up.

I don't want to rap about my car. How generic is that? Be creative.

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee.

I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

I have no intention of ever working with the (Spice) girls again.