I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

I made this record without a record label.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

I learned a great lesson from my mother on her deathbed. She counseled me on the importance of taking care of myself so I wouldn't end up in an unhealthy body like she did.

Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.

Adam was a super-being when God created him.

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

I'm used to riding horses. My father used to breed horses when I was a child. I grew up in Tipperary, in the country, and lots of people have horses there. If my parents hadn't been in the business, we would have them anyway, as pets. And my cousin Richard is a jockey.

I feel for the players.

I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.

I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.

I wasn't even prepared to be an actress. I was 17 when I came out of high school, and suddenly became Miss World and then I became an actress.

I've been living a lie all my life.

If you want a friend, buy a dog.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

My family is my life, and I'll never lose that.

It's not like if I play in big places I won't be happy. But I don't want to start adapting to what's in style to make my music. I want to stay true to my roots, to keep making the music I love, that comes from my soul. And if there are people who want to listen to it, I'm happy.

Politics is a people business. I like people.

On the red carpet, I need to be protected. When I wear a Chanel dress, I feel like I've earned the right to be there. And Karl Lagerfeld is so poetic, such an intelligent man. I like the way he has the power to draw attention.

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth most societies privilege men as a group. As a result social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

I was playing pretty boys and these angelic roles like Nicholas Nickleby and all that stuff. And I was like, 'What am I doing? This isn't who I am, as a man or an artist.' I had to overcome people's belief that I was too pretty to be a badass.

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.