You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Geffen was never supportive of the band.

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.

I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.

My son writes songs and plays. He sings like an angel.

I need to go outside. I wouldn't say I'm an outdoors person, but I like to go outside.

You can look back at anything and wish you'd done something differently.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

I have taken the marshmallows off the sweet potatoes, however. They would make a big pan of sweet potatoes and cover it with marshmallows. My kids would love it if I would do that for them!

But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

I can make dressing - or stuffing. Y'all call it stuffing up here, we call it dressing down there. It's really good dressing. That family recipe was passed on, and I love to make that.

I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

And I was very comfortable with this band even when we disagreed. It takes a long time to feel comfortable enough to disagree with somebody. When everything happened, it just was really confusing. It's like our weaknesses were nurtured and brought out front by outsiders.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now.

My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!

A lot of the songs start with an image. I was sitting there playing the guitar and I pictured this old, dirty green car, with the window rolled down, in the hot, hot, hot Texas heat, and this beautiful woman I knew when I was a kid sitting behind the wheel, looking out at me.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.

When I look at my kids, and the ease with which they pick up music, I wish I had that.

I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that's for sure.

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

Your kiss tells me to wait. To never let go to hold onto us and never lose hope. I feel it in my soul and know it in my heart. Youre my true love since the beginning of time its been written in the stars.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel... I sort of get very excited and fed by.

I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.

I quite like being old.

I have found serenity at Monaco.

This heart my own dear mother bends with loves true instinct back to thee

We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don't know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one's entertaining at home anymore. They're not having people over for dinner.

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

What's great about being a character actor is you know that you can survive forever. It's not about the gloss of your eyebrows.

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'

To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full of absolute comfort and happiness.

I'd like to do more TV stuff that is live action, but I am so totally happy doing as much voice work as I possibly can. Because it really is the best work. It's so amazing. You just show up. You don't have to look good. You don't even have to brush your hair. You work for a couple of hours, and you go home.

Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use... It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable.

I actually remember celebrating National Poetry Day at school; I remember having to write and read a load.

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

My life may seem glamorous from the outside but off screen it's as ordinary as anyone else's.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.