I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good show for the people.

There are few takers for the quiet heart.

I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management.

I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer - there was nothing I could really say I was. The writing came much later. And, actually, thank God, because if I had said I'm a singer, I would really have just had one thing to do.