I've gotten to really, really like being back in the States. It's so easy being in your own country, and I really like Americans - typical American towns and provincial college towns are my ideal place to be.
You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.
If you can fight directly with your mother, you can save a fortune in psychiatrist's bills.
This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.
In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
As the head of the public company, you can't say you can't sell, because then you're telling your shareholders that your own personal feelings about your assets are more important than their money. And they won't invest with you if you do that.
Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
Once you thrust yourself out there in the public domain, it's really hard to retreat, to say no or reclaim that certain part of your life as private.
Living your life in the public eye is a greater burden than most people can imagine.
Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.
Service is running for public office with the explicit and limited goal of serving your neighbors.
Within minutes of the attack, your Department of Public Safety mobilized its Operations Center, headed by a national expert on weapons of mass destruction.
You are your main news platform, so no publication has as much power as you do about posting about yourself.
I was an embarrassment to the department when they did research assessment exercises. A message would go round the department: 'Please give a list of your recent publications.' And I would send back a statement: 'None.'
When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
I have always discouraged young writers from self-publishing, by which I mean going to a vanity publisher and spending your hard earned savings - say, some two-three lakhs - and getting your book printed. It's not published; it's printed!
