"Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus."

“Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do't give a hoot about the rest.”

“Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.”

“I will only observe, that that ethereal sense - sight, and touch, which is at the other extremity of the scale, have from time acquired a very remarkable additional power.”

“I was shy. I was more than shy.”

“Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.”

“I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.”

“A joke a day keeps the gloom away!”

Source : "Fictional character: The Joker". "Batman: The Movie", www.imdb.com. 1966.

“I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.”

Source : "Interrogating Brandi Carlile: I Knew ‘That Wasn’t Me’ Was Our‘Let It Be.’". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2012.