"It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright."

“I am very honest with them - with an understanding that I'm doing them a disservice if I'm not telling them what I see. At the same time trying to remember that they're people and they're children and you know they are going to have off days and that's something that I feel like I've had to work on as I've gone down the coaching route.”

“You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.”

“I think it says something about our culture. We, maybe, need a massive therapy session so we can concentrate on what the real issues are. This contraceptive thing. My gosh, it’s so inexpensive. Back in my days, they used Bayer Aspirin for contraception. The gals put it between their knees, and it wasn’t that costly.”

Source : "'Where Are the Women?': Lawmakers Walk Out on Contraception Rule Hearing After Female Witness Barred". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Juan González, www.democracynow.org. February 17, 2012.

“Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.”

“I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.”

“I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.”

“All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.”

Source : "Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change". Book by Meliha Altunisik and Özlem Tür, 2005.

“For one has the right to shout. So, I am shouting.”