For days on end, I would hardly speak, and when I did only the vilest sort of gibberish would spout forth. I became morose and fat. Unapproachable, except when eating - and then only by waiters.

I fear for the future of the planet. But in a funny way, I'm even sanguine about that.

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.

When I started in this [music] business, I had a dream, but it was amorphous, and I had no experience. I just had a fuzzy notion of what life would be like if I became what I pictured.

When I finally did stop and look at my life, I realized that I had done what I'd set out to do. In my pitiful little way, I had climbed the mountain I had chosen. And there I was, on top.

Culturally, it's very hard to change people's attitudes about public space.

I've always said we got married because there was nothing on TV.