I GET chills when I think that there's a statue of Phil Lynott on a STREET in Dublin, that PEOPLE leave flowers by the statue. I love STUFF like that.

The more the marbles wastes, the more the STATUE GROWS.

In my LIVING ROOM - it's probably going to be MOVED to my office soon because it freaks too MANY people out - I have a huge seven foot statue of 'Seven of NINE' of 'Star Trek Voyager.'

I'm from Oklahoma City, and there's a STATUE ACROSS from the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building of Jesus. It's called 'Jesus Wept.' And I love this statue because it's a statue of Jesus with his head in his HAND. And his SADNESS and his PAIN at some of the choices that are made here - that just breaks his heart.

There are THREE things on my piano - my BEST Villainess award, my Grammy, and my ROCK N' ROLL HALL Of Fame statue.

There is none of that feeling about art that you meet everywhere in EUROPE. There you will HEAR people say, 'Oh, you must see such-and-such a statue at 4 o'clock in the afternoon; then the light is beautiful,' or, 'See this MONUMENT in the early morning; the light is best for it then.' Do you EVER hear anything like that from an American?

The CRAFT EMMYS are kind of the kids' table at THANKSGIVING. You're not really invited to the BIG dance. It's still really, really exciting, and the statue still counts.

Your WORK is carved out of AGONY as a STATUE is carved out of MARBLE.

I have a bronze STATUE of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of EVERY CURL. It's hot.

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little MODERN statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a BIRD, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it SOMEWHERE else.

There's a design book I got YEARS ago that had a statue of a DOG with a bunch of HATS on it, and I just obsessively fell in love with it. For years I searched for that dog. One day I walked into an antique shop in La Jolla and I found a white dog that I COULD PUT hats on!

I WOULD much RATHER have men ASK why I have no statue than why I have one.

You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would GO to the beach all the TIME, but we don't. It's the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don't live in N.Y.C., it's the first STOP on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have RELATIVES visiting from out of town!

If I'm the Cavs, I SERIOUSLY do this: I do a wink-wink deal with LeBron James, give him PART ownership of the TEAM. I PUT a statue in front of the building, and I retire his number. I do all of that.