"It's just like I get this identity crisis: my body doesn't want to write, my mind doesn't want to write. Nothing about me wants to write, but I force myself to sit there and try. Nothing happens."

“I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just pretty tired, because they didn't make it easy for me. And coming right off the last lawsuit, it was the last thing I wanted to get involved in. When it was over, we didn't really celebrate, we were just exhausted. I lost all interest in the record business and never wanted to do anything except hand in a record again.”

“Why do all balls look like they're 150 years old?”

“In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.”

“It's customary when great events happen that the U.S. punishes its friends and rewards its enemies.”

Source : "The Manipulator" by Jane Mayer, www.newyorker.com. June 7, 2004.

“If you really love someone, you shouldn't have to work at it, you finish each others' sentences and have the same sense of humor.”

“Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly”

“Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.”

“Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.”