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"People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place."
"When I was working on the lyrics, I thought of all the lullabies we learn as children: "Away in the Manger," William Blake's lullabies. I realized that the key to lullabies is simplicity."
"I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change."
"I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary."
"You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life."
"I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God."
"The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new."
"That whole thing about masturbating. Most girls, I guess nobody has to tell them, they just figure it out. I had to be told. Some girl actually had to show me a hairbrush and demonstrate exactly what to do. I just never figured that stuff out naturally."
"Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day."
"I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them."
"My public life was so demanding that I wasn't doing the things that I deemed the most important."
"I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?""
"I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors."
"By the time I was 10 or 11, I was completely demoralized. I thought, "I'm done. I'm never going to be a missionary," because my indiscretion column, whether it was little lies or stealing a Chunky bar, kept me from sainthood."
"I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living."
"Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit."
"All of my role models, whether it was the disciples, or John the Baptist or Arthur Rimbaud, slept under the stars."
"I've always considered myself a writer."
"I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life."
"The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair."