Every once in a while I go off to do a movie or a television series and I take my art with me. I can stay in character when I paint.

Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing therell be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

If your heart is open it can never stay broken.

People say women shouldn't have long hair over a certain age, but I've never done what everyone says.

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

My Open Hearts Family celebrates not only the traditional family but also extended families that we create from the people we open our hearts to as we journey through life.

Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know.

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island.

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

President Obama said he is going to use the Gulf disaster to push a new energy bill through Congress. How about using the Gulf disaster to fix the Gulf disaster?

Tranquility, allied to loneliness, possessed no charms.

Register my money, for the money gymnastic. Cause I make it flip now they be lookin all nasty.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.