Art pulls a community together... Art makes you feel differently. That's what artists are doing all the time, shifting and changing the way you see life.

A frightened captain makes a frightened crew.

The Canadian dialect of English . . . seems roughly to be the result of applying British syntax to an American vocabulary.

Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Bring the past, but only if you can build from it.

There is nothing that is meritorious but virtue and friendship.

I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

I've also never written anything really in LA.

If she were going to die, I'd already be screaming. I'm a female bean sidhe. That's what we do.

I'm a very good dishwasher. I'm a terrible cook. I'm an awful cook.

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.