Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues
I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.
I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.
I wish you luck with a capital F.
I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.
History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
The goal of my life isn't just. . . to be happy. 'Wouldn't it be easier if it was, though?
The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history
You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth
A woman journalist in England asked me why Americans usually wrote about their childhood and a past that happened only in imagination, why they never wrote about the present. This bothered me until I realized why - that a novelist wants to know how it comes out, that he can't be omnipotent writing a book about the present, particularly this one.