"I guess I could have a couple of secrets."

“Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.”

“Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson (2015). “Delphi Poetical Works and Plays of Edwin Arlington Robinson (Illustrated)”, p.111, Delphi Classics

“I can tell you squat about Islamism. But I know a lot about Al Quaeda, and they need to burn in hell.”

Source : "Frank Miller: Proud To Be Ignorant" by Alyssa Rosenberg, thinkprogress.org. October 27, 2011.

“Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.”

“I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.”

“I had a nightmare last night. I dreamed Dolly Parton was my mother and I was a bottle baby.”

“To me, beauty is confidence. I think I’m pretty confident in the decisions and the choices I make in my personal life and career, but the same time I also let my fans know that, just like them, I have insecurities. I have moments when I don’t feel good about myself. I think people can forget that, at the end of the day, I’m just a normal girl dealing with lots of the same issues as them.”

“The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.”