Petitions are ridiculous.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

Petitions are ridiculous.

What I do is I'm a bandleader, frontman, entertainer.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

I drink because I'm thirsty.

I've been here all the time; I could be putting out as many albums as Costello, y'know what I mean?

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Don't hang on to small annoyances.

Theres no luck in business. Theres only drive determination and more drive.

I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.

It takes a lifetime of devotion to build your craft, your confidence, and the ability to sing and dance and act believably.

Memories last forever never do they die. Friends stay together never say goodbye.

I'm developing a physiological theory of growth and oxygen requirement. If it's well-understood how fish require oxygen to grow, then we can understand how to deal with the impact of global warming.

Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

If we win, we'll make history, and I'll serve you on the Agriculture Committee.

Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record.

What was bizarre, when I was younger, I never watched TV. I would rather watch a movie 100 times than to watch a TV show, just to find another nuance. I can't tell you how many times I've watched 'On the Waterfront', just to find a flaw so that I can learn and try to improve my thing.

Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat.

It's just weird because videos games let you be something that you're not; so does acting, but it puts you in, like, a real-situation-type thing or something totally different.

Squash - that's not exercise, it's flagellation.

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

When Justice White retired, he gave me the chance to work for Justice Kennedy, as well. Justice Kennedy was incredibly welcoming and gracious, and like Justice White, he taught me so much. I am forever grateful. And if you've ever met Judge David Sentelle, you'll know just how lucky I was to land a clerkship with him right out of school.

I don't see the point in making a distinction between natives having more of a right to kill whales than nonnative people.

Your absence has not taught me how to be alone; it has merely shown me that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

People are used to being coddled.

I don't want to come over as some boringly self-deprecating person. But I don't see myself as a groundbreaking writer in the way plays are structured.