I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
The secret to scooping ice cream is all about the scooper. You have to dip it in water before and after every scoop. Then it just rolls off.
I wasn't a rock 'n' roll girl. I said, Neil Young, Neil Young, where do I know that name from?
Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.
Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.
The thing is with hip-hop, it has its waves and the waves crash against the beach and the new waves come in. So to stay relevant you have to roll with that.
Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.
And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word.
The thing of it is though that's the only way people know you, they see you in that roll and they see you in person and they only know the perception of what you are.
In fact, their eyes sort of roll around and they kind of go, 'Hmm'- like there's something there and they don't want to talk about it. But they're not that kind when they are speaking in public.
It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.
Have you seen 'American Idol' lately? I'm sure that some kids somewhere at this moment are thrashing themselves silly over what they call 'Rock n' Roll.'
I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.
I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
Rock Band is more like Stairmaster than it is like rock 'n' roll - it's the same steps with different degrees of difficulty.
A horse loves freedom, and the weariest old work horse will roll on the ground or break into a lumbering gallop when he is turned loose into the open.
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
The lust to meet authors ranks low, I think, on the roll of holy appetites; but it is an authentic pang.
I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.
