Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.