TRUTH is the ULTIMATE power. When the truth comes around, all the LIES have to RUN and hide.

The theory of EVOLUTION by cumulative natural SELECTION is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of ORGANIZED complexity.

I want to question what the OUTSIDE is and who DEFINES it. I often FIND those that are CONSIDERED to be on the outside extremely INSPIRING.

It's not OKAY to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you MIGHT not LIKE their POLITICS.

Of course New YORK is the Mecca of STYLE in AMERICA, but don't knock Phoenix - it's not as BIG, but there are LOTS of people with style there.

Being a TWIN, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't KNOW how to be who I am, INCLUDING a WRITER, without that being somehow at the centre.

Of COURSE that was my IDOL, SON House. I think he did a LOT for the Mississippi slide down there.

His droll little MOUTH was DRAWN up LIKE a bow, and the beard of his CHIN was as WHITE as the snow.

I REALLY like the OBSERVER. I think I'd LOVE to have a COLUMN with a broad reach that would enable me to do some proper reporting, but keep it on sort of a humorous level. I've ALWAYS had a very happy experience writing for them.

I got the first Nintendo system, and me and my mother WOULD STAY up and play it TOGETHER for hours and hours and hours - mainly SUPER Mario BROTHERS and Mario Kart!

If we based EVERYTHING in Hollywood on who was a NICE guy, HOLY moly, we would have no movies. No actors would work. This is not an industry that is ruled by KINDNESS and generosity.

TEARS are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a LIFE has been LIVED completely honestly, completely SUCCESSFULLY, or just completely, the correct response to death's PERFECT punctuation mark is a smile.

In our minds, love and LUST are REALLY separated. It's hard to find SOMEONE that can be kind and you can TRUST enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to TOE.

I see myself more like a NOVELIST or a polygamist than a MUSICIAN in TERMS of my output.

I STARTED out doing MUSICALS.