America Is So Caught Up In This

Without Passion, The Powers-that-be Can Run Roughshod Over You.

Sold My Soul. Bought These Devil Chains.

I'm Not Interested In Perfection. The Universe Is Perfect, And There Are Some Works Of Art That We See As Perfect, But Human Beings Aren't Perfect.

The First Time I Saw A Picture Of [fabled Actress] Ethel Barrymore - She Was On Broadway And She Was Wearing Pearls. I Thought, "that's Who I Should Grow Up To Be." It's Odd, Because It Was Her Physical Image That I Wanted; I Had No Idea What It Was Like Actually To Be Her. In Those Days, We Weren't Bombarded By Images The Way We Are Now, And The Ones We Did Have Were More Vivid In People's Minds.

There's The Media-driven Universe, In Which The Public Perceives You In A Superficial Way. Then There's The Universe That You Actually Inhabit, Where You Have To Get Up Even If You Didn't Sleep So Well, And You Feel Like Crap And Your Face Is Swollen.