It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

[Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

find yourself a lover who will glue you to the floor

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

I'm going back to my parrot head friends.