A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.

Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine.

I don't think it's good to be sentimental, so I try not to be.

I have no sense of patriotism, but I do have a sense of community.

I've done lots of songs for film soundtracks and things like that - stuff I'm not ashamed of, but that doesn't represent my legacy with the Pretenders.

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

I'm not a figurehead for anything. I was a single mom with two kids. What else was I going to do? It was either be in a band or be a waitress.

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.

Look, as long as we can make records and sell enough so we can do some shows, that's all I want. You know what? I just want to play guitar and be in a band. Same as I always did.

Remember those black-and-white films with Frank Sinatra? Those guys looked like men and they were only 27! Listen to Otis Redding singing 'Try A Little Tenderness'. That was a man who understood what a man has to know in the world. Show me a real man now! Where are they?

When I hear myself singing, I hear Iggy Pop and Jimi Hendrix. There's a conversational thing going on. I suppose it depends on which The Pretenders song you're listening to.

We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.

There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.

Federal assistance helps millions of Americans escape poverty every year by providing the stability needed to take advantage of new opportunities. In fact, it is our safety net that allows full participation in the economy. More Americans purchasing goods means more Americans making them, which means more American jobs.

A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.

A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.

Comedy is a universal language. I grew up watching Nagesh, Surilirajan, Thenga Srinivasan and S.V. Shekhar's comedies. And, of course, Charlie Chaplin! These artists are so blessed: they can make other people happy.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us.

Lifting is what's made me stronger and made me look better. Not only does it burn fat amazingly - and I think it's really honed my body - it's also given me the strength in the ring to lift girls up. I can literally lift anything on my shoulders.

I'm being all of me, and it feels stupendous. I don't want to leave this feeling.

I'm a 'never say never' girl. Frank Sinatra retired four times. He kept coming back. But there are people in our business who want to die on stage. Literally. I don't want to do that.

I got to play in a crowd, play in Wimbledon finals, be the guy on a Davis Cup team for a while. Those are opportunities not a lot of people get.

The truth is, no, we don't live in a post-racial state anywhere in America, and this is particularly true in Hollywood.

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

I dress for women and I undress for men.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.

Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor.

To admit guilt for nonexistent crimes is unacceptable to me.

ALL people have adversity. What separates the good from the great is how we choose to react to it.

By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My uncle was a downed fighter pilot and P.O.W. in World War II, and I am looking forward to recording his story for inclusion in the project.

I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him.

Life is tough - and you have to be tougher than life to change the world.