"My friends say I have to get back on the bike, and I keep saying – maybe not the bike."
– Sheryl Crow, to Ellen DeGeneres on getting over her breakup with cyclist Lance Armstrong.


• "Imagine being my publicist, how hard that's gotta be."

– Often-controversial rapper Kanye West, giving props to his spin-man, while accepting his Grammy for best rap album


• "I made a mistake and so it is what it is, I guess."
– Britney Spears, on driving with her infant son on her lap, to Access Hollywood


"I think I can be scarier than he is. He's a big teddy bear."

– Hilary Duff, to Cosmopolitan on tattooed rocker boyfriend Joel Madden


• "I'm hoping Sasha Cohen dates gold medalists."
– Snowboarder Shaun White, expressing interest in his figure-skater teammate, after snagging the gold in Torino


• "I go between 14 and two. But I do believe my mate will have something to say about that."

– Matthew McConaughey, to Oprah Winfrey on how many children he'd like to have