But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

I think that G-O-D is like the answer to a formula for creat­ing life. Or some kind of energy or anti­gravity. It's like the answer to an equation and it's become mythical over the years. But at one time we all knew what it was. I don't know when it was exactly, but that was the ancient knowledge. It's become diffused as it was handed down and turned into myth.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

I could be a housewife… I guess I’ve vacuumed a couple of times.

How can one be a woman and not be a feminist? That's my question.

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.