Your problem is your role models were models. — Lily Tomlin

"What if its boring... or if its not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring."

"Listen, I have no judgment about anything. Some people will bring certain celebrities up to me who are presumably — or known to be — gay and ask "Why dont they come out?" But we dont know why they dont, and its none of our business, really. In 75 I was making the Modern Scream album, and Jane and I were in the studio. My publicist called me and said "Time will give you the cover if youll come out." I was more offended than anything that they thought wed make a deal. But that was 75 — it would have been a hard thing to do at that time."

"Its a more ridiculing, divisive humor today, especially with the advent of political incorrectness, which is a license to be as ridiculing and awful about certain groups... There should be room for everybody, absolutely, and then the culture is going to decide the prevailing weight. We cant decide it individually. Nobody is here without a reason. … I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy — from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated — but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it."

"If love is the answer, could you please rephrase the question?"

"I feel some part of me can wake up and be very existential and the next day wake up and be sort of in love with the universe."

"Theres so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."