Probably the only thing my mom and dad agreed on was the vital importance of guilt.

Guilt is the major motivating force in my life.

Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

If life can end in one minute - so damn quickly with no damn warning - you better do what you want to do now right this minute. Because your next minute might not happen.

Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.