I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.
Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.
My favorite thing about the Ultimate Queen Celebration is that we're not afraid to explore a non-traditional Queen set list.
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
You feel a little older in the morning. By noon I feel about 55.
I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.
From age 7 to about 37, I had a normal life and not a very easy one.
I've got re-addicted to normal people, which is the loveliest thing to write about.
I played the bars in northern California since I was 18. We played at least three hours, and there's no which-way about it: That definitely helped.
I spent 34 months on the battleship Alabama, South Dakota-class. I was a gun captain. First we went to Russia for about 11 months with the British convoys. Then we were up in Norway and Scandinavia.
The hardest thing is not caring about other people's opinions.
It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
The most noticeable thing about the Soviet collapse was that it followed a natural course.
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity.
Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
On every album I've put out, I've put diverse Canadian songs on it. They're not provincial album; my albums are national albums. There'll be a song about Saskatchewan and Vancouver and Nova Scotia on there.
Most novelists write about twisted lives.
I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
