"Most of my songs are about insensitivity of some kind."

“If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.”

“Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.”

Source : Emily Oster (2013). “Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong--and What You Really Need to Know”, p.14, Penguin

“Having been in a relationship since I was 18, I'm very domestic, but I don't enjoy cooking for myself. I don't mind cooking for other people. But I don't like cleaning or washing dishes, although I don't mind doing laundry.”

“There's a fine line between writing the poem and the poem writing itself. You have to be there and not be there, too.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com

“The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.”

Source : Jerry A. Coyne (2009). “Why Evolution is True”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA

“What we call birth Is but a beginning to be something else Than what we were before; and when we cease To be that something, then we call it death.”

“As far as my creative urge is concerned, I do sit down and write my own music...I'll tell you a writer who I think is a genius: Ray Stevens. He comes up with some of the most fantastic novelty ideas. Dolly Parton also writes well. I like a lot of songs, a lot of writers.”

“I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.”