Feel good about yourself. You have been blessed and you might not have even realized it.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

I love Switzerland. It's so clean and cool. We don't get much snow where I live so I get real excited in Lausanne and Geneva. I'd like to buy a house there when I'm older and settle down. It's all so cute that it looks like a movie set.

A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life.

This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that "abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins."

The record companies really do conspire against the artists. Especially the black artists

If you want to see eccentricities, I'll be grotesque before your eyes.