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Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

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Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine.

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

I had to learn, really, how to rein in my energies and discipline myself. And I found it very very useful. I rebelled against it at first, but it's a good thing to have.

I wrote every day. I don't think I could have written 'Just Kids' had I not spent all of the 80s developing my craft as a writer.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight, and sometimes people say something that's startling or is so poignant.

A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.

My father's mother was from Liverpool and she had this very beautiful English china. I only wanted to drink my cocoa out of my grandmother's cup and saucer.

The issue of gender was never my biggest concern; my biggest concern was doing good work. When the feminist movement really got going, I wasn't an active part of it because I was more concerned with my own mental pursuits.

I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

What I say should always be prefaced with this: I'm not really politically articulate. I just try to be like Thomas Paine: what is common sense? So when I say these things to you, I am speaking from a humanist...

I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering...

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