Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well but that it has limits.

I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances or whether you are going to taste it enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.

You know when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That's you know a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you're chasing that high around all the time trying to have another good night.

And finally I twist my heart round again so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be and could be if there weren't any other people living in the world.

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

I am good but not an angel. I do sin but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty nasty unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me.