You fit me better than my favorite sweater.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Are you ever going to kiss me without swearing first?

Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

If it's easter than east and wester than west, it must be north.

The role of the painter . . . is to project that which sees itself in him.

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Look, we ought to do this for our kids... We ought to have a high school so that every kid who grows up here - they're all our kids - gets a good high school education.

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.

Read Don Quixote; it is a very good book; I still read it frequently.