I'm always a great student of WRITERS' WORK habits. Balzac sat at his DESK dressed in a monk's robe, and he always had to have a ROTTEN apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him SOMEHOW.

I love Monk's song, 'Just a Gigolo.' It's probably a MINOR song for him, but whenever I HEAR a RECORDING of him playing it, I'm mesmerized because Monk clearly loved pop music. He took it very seriously and made an AMAZING THING out of it.

Being on BROADWAY is the MODERN EQUIVALENT of being a monk. I sleep a LOT, EAT a lot, and rest a lot.

I left Chicago many YEARS ago to move to California. You can't help but live a HEALTHY lifestyle here if you want to fit in. I find myself eating CHICKEN and salad and chicken and salad and salad and chicken, LIKE a monk.

'Monk' planted the SEED that a procedural COULD have CHARACTER and be quirky and have comedy.

I play a Monk song, it's LIKE you get POSSESSED. And then you have to break that spell. You have to remind yourself that you are an individual, or that you aren't Thelonious Monk.

When I became a MONK, it didn't feel like I was giving up that much. I ACTUALLY felt like I had made the BEST decision, because anyone who hadn't focused on BUILDING themselves up was the one losing out.

I WANT to LIVE with a MONK... and the ROLLING STONES.

If you can get a twelve year-old kid to GO listen to Thelonius MONK, what more do you want? Do you want a big pile of CASH, too? That's a HOME RUN for me.

I did take comfort in the vespers and compline. I MIGHT have BECOME a monk if I hadn't COME out.

Every few GENERATIONS there are people who COME along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

My IMAGINATION is a monastery and I am its MONK.

At HEART I am a librarian, a bird-watcher, a transcendentalist, a gardener, a spinster, a MONK.

I TURNED into a monk when my mother went to learn BUDDHISM in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I USED to roam around with a begging bowl and ask for FOOD.

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous LION tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was ABLE to hypnotize ANIMALS with her eyes. It GAVE me a VISION.