Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

And what is a stage dad, or a stage mom? It's someone who's protective. That's all.

That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It's the boring people that we don't want to see on television.

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

I don't think rap really fits in to 'American Idol' in the sense that I believe rap is an art form in itself more akin to poetry, more akin to drama, if you will.

In my day everything wasn't so PC.

There's no question 'Amazing Race' is a beautifully produced show.

Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

Inspiration for what we produce comes from reading, observing the world of humans around us and also the animal kingdom

At five o'clock Paris always has a current of eroticism in the air.

If it was a great script and a great character, I would love to do a romantic comedy.

Vegetables are called 'specialty crops.' Don't ask me why.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

Health can be squandered, but not stored up.