If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

I was just a bumpkin. Just a country bumpkin. I had just come to New York from Virginia. Or was it Baltimore?

How do I tell people who I am? Not being a writer, the only way is to sing songs that reflect my opinions.

If you really think you're right, you should tell it.

If you truly dig what you are doing, if you lay it out that way, nobody can not respond. That's what rock and roll is; it's relentless.

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

Honesty is all you need.

When you're famous, you don't get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you don't see the real people.

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Probably the biggest bring-down in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything it was supposed to be against.

When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained, and you should go out there and really give it your best shot. And that's quite a challenge.

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.

Typically, there's a drive in science to do something just to say you've done it.

The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

I do this a lot with names. I'll start with a name, and then for some reason he won't talk much, or he's older than I pictured him just because of a name I give him. So then I finally get the right name, and I can't shut the guy up. This always happens. There's always a character who gives me trouble that way.

Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot.

It's often difficult for those who are lucky enough to have never experienced what true depression is to imagine a life of complete hopelessness, emptiness and fear.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance an opportunity to choose well or to choose badly.

The whites have resolved to destroy our liberty and have therefore brought a force commensurate to their intentions. The Cape, after a proper resistance, has fallen into their hands, but the enemy found only a town and plain in ashes; the forts were blown up, and all was burnt.

I had earlier concluded that a war with Iraq would be a distraction from the successful and expeditious completion of our aims in Afghanistan. Now I had come to question whether the White House was telling the truth.

I am terrible at memorizing things. Hence, ad-libbing.

We can't be paying pensions to the next generation of federal workers when hardly anyone in the private sector gets them.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

How you react to situations is your personal choice. It is your decision, and yours alone, to determine the importance you give to any situation.

I do not hold to non-violence for moral reasons, but for political and practical reasons.

TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.

It's not the '90s anymore. I think the gay community is a lot more accepted these days.

I was stranded in Disco. I went to dozens of darkened places with enough flashing lights to drive the average person mad. I felt lost in the pulse of sheer panic.

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.