I think the themes in my songs are very similar from the first album to the newest one. It's all about the human condition and how we are all trying to learn to live with each other and survive love and life.

When I was a little kid I thought I would grow up to be black and sing jazz in nightclubs.

Molly Ringwald

It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son -- and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.

Helen Rowland

Take what you want, God said to man, and pay for it.

Proverb

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

George Lucas

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Edward Masefield

Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.

Oswald Spengler

Maybe I couldn

Germaine Greer

This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

Orson Scott Card

The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her

George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Drew Barrymore

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?

Elliot Richardson