Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.

One of the Secrets in Life is to Make Stepping Stones out of Stumbling Blocks.

Tequila makes me dream up things like dance battles.

[During the Renaissance] the Italians said, "We are one in the Father: we will go back." The Northern races said, "We are one in Christ, we will go on.

Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions.

A lot of people are concerned with staying physically young...I'm more interested in maintaining my curiosity.

When the sun sets, candle starts seeing itself like the sun!

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

Because if I don’t, Fang will die. (Aimee) Are you high? (Dev) No. (Aimee) C’mon, Aim, admit it. Heavy amounts of drugs are involved here. (Dev)

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.