I made wine from the lilac tree/Put my heart in its recipe/It makes me see what I want to see/And be what I want to be

It was always Marx, Lenin, and revolution - real girl's talk.

I don't like to go to strange places. I was in Italy for about five hours on my way to Africa.

Anything human can be felt through music, which means that there is no limit to the creating that can be done with music. You can take the same phrase from any song and cut it up so many different ways - it's infinite. It's like God... you know?

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever.

I do love to sing Jacques Brel songs, intensely. I get terribly excited, just by reading a couple of lines in any one of his songs.

The allusion was that I was actually naked. I loved that. It always, kind of shocked people enough that they became mine immediately.