When I was in high school, I remember, on my Converse sneakers, on one side, I had written 'Social Distortion,' and on the other side, I had written 'Guns N' Roses.'

In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.

I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

I would rather not have contentious interviews. I'd rather do 30 minutes with Charlie Rose, laid back in a La-Z-Boy chair.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

When I was in Class VII, a boy from Class VI came to me with a bunch of roses and said, 'Didi, will you be my Valentine today?'

I told my mom I wanted to buy roses for my teachers so I'm pretty sure my son'll be that way too.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

You'll never find a Manchester band slagging off another Manchester band, but within each Manchester band, people will rip each other apart: Mondays, Smiths, New Order, Roses, Oasis.

If I was in the gutter, and my kids lived on the kerb, I'd go and get a job in B&Q before I'd reform the Roses. I gave everything I had to the Stone Roses and ended up hitting a brick wall. I'm never going to give anyone a foothold on that wall again.

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums.

When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.'

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

I was a prosecutor in Brooklyn in the homicide division and then as a senior assistant district attorney.

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.

I personally think that a bouquet of white roses is simple, chic, and surprisingly long-lasting.

I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment.

Citi Field is one of the coolest spots I've been to. It was so much fun to hold a cocktail party and rose ceremony there.