You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

You're either too fat or too thin. You just can't win.

You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.

I would have been happy to have waited till I was in my mid- to late-30s before I got married, but you don't choose when these things happen, and when they do, there's no doubt in your mind.

I'm a perfectionist.

The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I am such a bad liar. I would like to lie, though.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

I'm such a chameleon. I never get bored.

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.

I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.

I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.

I wasn't born with a natural talent for songwriting.

I worry unnecessarily.

I'm not a nightclub person, but you need to have a social life sometimes.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

It's not very often that I like new bands.

My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.

There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.

There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.

You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.

I try to keep the martial arts up. It's a good thing, not just physically but also for your mind.

I feel pretty confident in my own ability.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

We're all tired of a Washington that has these partisan camps where nothing gets done.

My message to Washington is very simple. Face reality. Be leaders. Demonstrate accountability. Engage in principle compromise. And understand your job is to find solutions.

Tom Snyder was big enough to fill the night with talk and his own persona. The Snyder we saw on TV was not a replica of the real guy; it was the real guy.

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Is making a movie true love if you're a creative person? It could be. But in my world, the importance of being a father and having kids and knowing that connection is true love. Making a movie is love.

There have been players with Indian heritage, but there hasn't been a Native-American professional basketball player who became a regular for all sorts of social and political reasons.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

thoughts are cheap and they don't hurt anybody.

I steer away from episodic TV; it burns you out.

I am nothing without the players.

The fact that free men persist in the search for the truth is the essential difference between Communism and Democracy.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.

Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.

The more I have written, the less it has been about exploring myself, and the more it has been about exploring the world around me.

I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.