If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities..

I don't think the average American understands what patriotism truthfully is. That's why when I attack our country or attack the government, it's som….

The film [Dream of Life], in the end, is life-affirming, and I think it's always useful for people to be reminded that no matter how rough things get….

I wasn't attractive, I wasn't very verbal, I wasn't very smart in school. I wasn't anything that showed the world I was something special, but I had ….

I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realis….

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur..

I'm a total failure at housewifery. I always have been, 'cause I daydream too much. If I start doing the dishes at one in the afternoon, I'll still b….

You don't want to OD on improvisation..

I watch a lot of crime shows. The head investigator always said to the crime solver, "What do you say?" And inevitably the other has to say something….

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents..

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding ….

I can't judge how another person does their [music] work. Everyone has a choice and the music industry is much more open that it was when I was young….

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all..

I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business..

Words are just rules and regulations to me..

What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had..

I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget….

Arthur Conan Doyle had to be Sherlock Holmes in order to envision how Sherlock Holmes would unravel a mystery. He had to be in Sherlock's situations.….

By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, ….

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives….

I've embraced rock 'n' roll because it encompasses all the things I'm interested in: poetry, revolution, sexuality, political activism - all of these….