They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

At the time, I was making good money doing background work and demos.

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?

When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.

I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.

There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

I don't think anyone gets to the end of their life and wishes they had surfed less.

Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.

I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.

It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again.

Boundaries are the lines we draw that mark off our autonomy and that of other people that protect our privacy and that of others. Boundaries allow for intimate connection without dissolving or losing ones sense of self.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

Castle Rock and New Line each have their strengths, but the great thing about New Line is that they are a real focused-market, niche-market player who understand franchises. They probably understand the franchise business in motion pictures better than anyone else out there.

I've always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad's car on long journeys across the States. That's how I used to make friends - I'd meet up with other kids, and we'd swap comics.

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.

The lack of trust between the federal government and the American citizens of this country is such a wide gap, we have to renew that trust for the people of this country going forward.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

Doubt whom you will but never yourself.

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.