He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

A great writer named Neal Stephenson said that America does four things better than any other country in the world: rock music, movies, software and high-speed pizza delivery. All of these are sacred American art forms. Let's return to our purity and our idealism while we have this shot.

I lived out my little rock'n'roll fantasy, I just wish I hadn't gotten into so much trouble for it.

But let me tell you something. Gloria Steinem never helped me out; Larry Flynt did.

Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

On Sofia Coppola's 16th birthday, way back in 1987, I stole a lip gloss from her Sistine Chapel of a bedroom. Years later, I left a Chanel lip gloss in the reception of the Mercer Hotel for her. You know why? I believe that you've got to fix your karma.

Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.