I have worn a tuxedo, but I have never covered up for respectability politics or to shame other women.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

I won't sit here and say I've never had a pimple, but I try to have a really great diet, you know, lots of vegetables and fish. And I think stress plays a huge part too.

I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

People say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.

We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it.

A satellite has no conscience.

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

I confess, I do not believe in time.

Discussion in class, which means letting twenty young blockheads and two cocky neurotics discuss something that neither their teacher nor they know.

The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Polite conversation is rarely either.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

If you are of the opinion that the contemplation of suicide is sufficient evidence of a poetic nature, do not forget that actions speak louder than words.

As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

If you're going to America, bring your own food.

My favorite animal is steak.

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

I was a huge Beatles fan. We could talk about who I listened to growing up and what my sources were, but certainly the Beatles were a late, important resource for me, and I just took my guitar and a handful of songs, and I decided, well, I'll just go over and travel around Europe and see what comes of it.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

It'll be the Internet and piracy that will kill film. There's a philosophy that the Internet should be free, but the reality is that piracy will destroy the film industry and film as an art form because it's expensive to make a movie. Maybe you'll have funky little independent movies, and it'll go back and then start up again some other way.

There is that awful moment when you realize that you're falling in love. That should be the most joyful moment, and actually it's not. It's always a moment that's full of fear because you know, as night follows day, the joy is going to rapidly be followed by some pain or other. All the angst of a relationship.

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.