"Money is a good thing and it's obviously useful, but to work only for money or fame would never interest me."

"I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams."

"I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well."

"When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place."

"Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it."

"Death is a distant rumor to the young."

"I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year."

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."