I wasn't interested in exploiting myself..

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one..

Nothing works unless you do the work..

As a dramatist, I don't have politics..

I don't want death to suddenly interrupt what I'm doing. I don't like the idea of death at all..

Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack..

Politics is who gets what, when, how..

I'm interested, I suppose, in tortured power..

Don't start something that you cannot finish..

I don't enter, I'm entered. It's up to someone else. It's up to them..

You are either going forward or you are not..

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

Success is never deserved. Success is always earned..

Every picture of you is when you were younger..

Meaning is not in things but in between them..

Let us be French as the Americans are English..

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me..

I cannot do politics under someone else's control..

I worked with Cecil B DeMille quite a few times..

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success..

I take all of my music seriously and personally..