What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

Mitchell Baker

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Neil Gaiman

You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.

Joni Mitchell

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Khalil Gibran

But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

Alexander Pope

Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards.

Soren F. Petersen

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

Elbert Hubbard

Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.

Diane Duane

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.

Mason Cooley

Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene

In his private heart no man much respects himself.

Mark Twain

People who know me know I have a sense of humor that can really push the envelope.

Carmen Electra