Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.