My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?

My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

I spent a lot of time between bars like this.

I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.

Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

All my life people have been waiting around to watch me die.

I chose faces and figures as my subject matter simply due to the fact that the human form is already beautiful art.

Thunder is your inner beauty and lightening is your loving spark.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

I don't direct the plays of others.

Most people are really cool and I really don't mind talking to them and answering their questions.

Big government doesn't work! It just doesn't work!

I got a big mouth.

So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy.

I climb mountains.

The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing.

There are examples of fraternal dictatorships, or one, anyway: the passing of power from Fidel to Raul Castro.

I'm not a politician.

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!

Flexible working is not just for women with children. It is necessary at the other end of the scale. If people can move into part-time work, instead of retirement, then that will be a huge help. If people can fit their work around caring responsibilities for the elderly, the disabled, then again that's very positive.

I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

I am determined.

The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.

Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits.

I can't relax. I find vacations problematic.

If you can quit, quit. If you can't quit, stop complaining - this is what you chose.

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.