I'm angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
I feel like everything I do makes people feel really uncomfortable.
I like to be provocative. I like to make people think. I like to touch people's hearts. And if I can do all three of those things in one fell swoop, then I feel like I've really accomplished something.
I like to touch people's hearts.
I like to make people think.
I like to be provocative.
I don't like to be provocative for the sake of being provocative.
I like pushing the envelope. But I don't like to do it just for the sake of doing it.
I worship F. Scott Fitzgerald and I love his writing.
I've created a very unconventional family. I have lovers who are three decades younger than me. This makes people very uncomfortable.
I refuse to live a conventional life.
I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.
I'm obsessed with clowns and what they represent and the idea that clowns are supposed to make you laugh, but inevitably they're hiding something. That's how I look at my life.
I like talking; I like playing with the audience.
I'm liking the idea more and more of just standing up with a microphone and talking.
It's always exciting for me to perform.
Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35.
I'll stop when I run out of ideas.
I'll stop doing everything that I do when I don't want to do it anymore.
For me, it's either you're part of creation or you're part of destruction. It's inexplicable; it's like breathing, and I can't imagine not doing it.
The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.
I've had so many challenges throughout my career, however successful people perceive me to be.
Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.
There are any number of things that would be detrimental to your career. Everyone's really afraid.
What I find really astonishing is how quiet everybody is in my industry. I mean, nobody in the entertainment business except for maybe a handful of people ever speak out about what's going on. Nobody takes a political stance or expresses an opinion.
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