I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

I go to screenings, then plays, then after-parties, then clubs.

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

I'm just a simple kid from Brooklyn who landed into the most enchanted lifestyle imaginable.

I can't drive, so I can only live in New York, which is fine with me.

By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.

The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.

I'm deeply driven and want my finger stuck in every pot there is.

With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly.

I don't know about you, but I can tell when someone's lying. They can't look you in the eye - they look you in the bridge of your nose.

It's a good thing that columnists don't make homosexuality their last taboo anymore. But I wish the columnists themselves would come out too.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.

There are so many people that have come up to me during our shows and tell me: "The hour that we are watching your show is the hour that my kids are happiest and are smiling, they are laughing," and that is what I long to do.

I always wanted to sing English songs, ever since I was, like, 10 or 12 years old.

Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.

At a relatively early age, I began to believe that building a business was perhaps the greatest opportunity for making an impact, because it's a tool for making a change in the world.

Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.

I'm against government-subsidized parking and government-mandated parking.

My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.

Eclipse of the light of heaven eclipse of God such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing.

Ink is the transcript of thought.

I think fidelity is absolutely important, especially in the acting industry, which is littered with broken relationships because people are away filming for months.

Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldnt put your soul in a dishwasher

I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.

The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

There is something supremely reassuring about television; the worst is always yet to come.

Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day.