When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.

When rock came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

I had four or five years in school training as a soprano. I fell into pop singing because of economics. I got out of high school and had to go work, and they weren't hiring opera singers.

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.

Whatever fame came did so not because I sought it.

There was never anything like it before in history. It was a different kind of joyous, happy screaming.

The world is a pile of grunge.

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul its yearning for its own milieu

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

I've never been a size zero, let me say that here and now. I've never been that sort of person.

I don't believe we ought to be discriminating against people for their private lives.

If Jesus was a Jew, how come he has a Mexican first name?

I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?

I've survived a lot of things, and I'll probably survive this.

Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be.

Business news is sexy.

I reprimand people, even those working with me, for littering the roads.

I've been to India a lot, ever since when my mum was in 'Jewel In The Crown.'

I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.

My looks have changed. I have laugh lines - not wrinkles.

I think acting is a gift.

The emotional sexual and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says Its a girl.

Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry.

Jim Thorpe is someone I've always loved. He was an Olympic athlete, you know, and a football player from back in the day. I'd love to play him. And then there's a guy called Iceman who was a top hit man for the mob. I would love to play him. Actually, it's sort of in the works, so I hope it goes through.

I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.