"Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not."

“California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.”

“Even when it's midnight, people are watching you. It's difficult to be in the spotlight all the time.”

“Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal”

“People say, 'Why don't you do interviews? What do you think about this? What do you think about that?' My job in the band is to play drums, to get up on stage and hold the band together. That's what I do. At the end of the day that's all that's important. Everything else is irrelevant.”

“If you're interested in doing something about climate change as we all should be, all of us who care about future people and creatures that will inhabit this world. Then buying a Prius is a good thing but an even better thing would be to be on the streets demanding urgent action from the United States' Congress.”

“I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.”

“I'm a competitor. I really enjoyed the race more than just going out and running to run”

Source : Interview with Peter Gambaccini, www.runnersworld.com. October 23, 2006.

“They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real.”