Bob Dylan

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

Being on tour is like being in limbo. It’s like going from nowhere to nowhere.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

I’ve never written a political song. Songs can’t save the world. I’ve gone through all that.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.

Think of our government as a body. The IRS is the anus. It’s nobody’s favorite part, but you need that thing working properly or everything goes to shit real quick.

I’ve always wanted to be a stand-up comic on some levels as well and I know I can play and sing but when people see me and say, “I didn’t know you were so funny… You’re like a real entertainer,” that’s what I like more than all the other accolades.

What I’m doing is making sure that I have a balance, and that allows me, I think, to be a better actor and to more easily and quickly access all of the emotions on the scale. I make sure that I read a book on the weekend or read something or do my knitting or do the things that I need to do for myself, like ‘Game of Thrones.’ Get that balance.

I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it’s a little unseemly for women of a certain age.

We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?

When you’re on your fifth album, you are going to be judged against all your previous work and expectations.

Down the road, I’ll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

I would love to have kids someday; I actually can’t imagine not having them. My parents have been married for 36 years. They (Lance, a mover, and Sandy, a nurse) have a pretty honest, straightforward relationship that I hope to have myself. – On having her own kids somedayYou never really know the person you’re sleeping beside. You have a right to your secrets, but that’s very difficult when you’re supposed to be someone’s partner. – On marriage as a minefield of secrets, as suggested in Married Life

Everyone wants to be black so bad I wake up feeling so exclusive!

A lot of actresses start out modeling because it’s a great way to sort of get your foot in the door. That’s all it is, though. They open the door, and you have to walk through it.

I might get mad all over again watching our premiere.

I used to always feel awkward around a lot of rappers. Other people came from hustling and all that. Sometimes it was harder to relate. People would look down on me for the way I dressed, because my raps weren’t really that good – it was like, ‘Just shut up and do beats.’

I love old music, old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes and basically I’m an old-fashioned gal.

In LA, where I live, it’s all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.

[On Hollywood’s initial response to his Garden State script] Everyone said no. Everyone with a date book and a phone in Los Angeles said no.