My original inspiration was my mom: a few years after the death of my dad, she started dating one my teachers!

I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!

I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction.

You're only famous in the eyes of others. Inside, you're still the same, and not a hundred million records or TV shows can change that. I think the only pitfall of fame is believing that it means something, and behaving like that.

'm really proud of 'Sad, Sad World' because it manages to state a very complex paradox of an emotion that I experienced when I had children, which is this great happiness and this great intensity, but with that intensity comes a deeper understanding of the world.

My pure love is playing music.

After 'Skins' I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.

I don't want to date. But I do have dreams about a great love.

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.

There's a very famous South African playwright named Athol Fugard, and I'd be in any play he's ever did.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

I worry about not being able to be myself day to day. But I know people way more famous than me who have been able to do that.

Walking in the street, particularly in a city like New York, every single day, I am reminded of how objectified women can be. Being catcalled every day, multiple times a day, all the time... it just constantly happens.

The truth is all kinds of people exist everywhere. So let's tell their stories, too.

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

I do wonder if it's my responsibility to spread a message of environmental awareness or political awareness or just, like, don't be racist or whatever, but I don't want to be the person who's like, 'Everyone be vegan forever!'

I used to cry on planes. I don't anymore. It probably took almost a hundred agonizing flights to get there. Now, when I take off, a smile quivers on the corner of my lips.

Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra.

I think 'Cyrus' has a lot of fat in it. It was a $7 million movie. If you're going to make a movie with famous people, you don't necessarily need to spend 7 million dollars. Make it for less than that, and you'll be able to sell it and make a ton more than that, and everybody shares the profits.

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry.

It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Anger is a transient hatred; or at least very like it.

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.

We've always been kind of an underground band in a way that had the respect of our peers on the road. I like to say we're the world's most famous opening act because we've opened for every huge band on the planet.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

When I'm playing 'Rock Band,' I'm like, 'Man, someday, later on in life when I'm a famous rock star...' Which gets a little harder to convince myself of as I reach middle age, but it still happens a lot.

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.

I wouldn't like to be that famous, I value my privacy. Mind you, Miss Piggy enjoys every moment of it. If it were not for me, she would spend all her time in the limelight.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up.

I was born in Hereford, England, in 1944. We moved when they had an opportunity to get a visa, about 1950. My dad always thought Europe was a bit too small for him. He wanted to see the United States... The typical immigrant story. He wanted a better life for his children, too. He always tried to get the visa, and it didn't come up.

I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.