Having cancer empowered me to take more risks. I knew beating cancer was going to shape me, but it wasnt going to be all of me.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.

Be crazy. Be stupid. Be silly. Be weird. Be whatever. Because life is too short to be anything but happy

I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It's mood medicine. It's pure magic. A good song is like a good meal-I just want to inhale it and then share a bite with someone else.

Tone is often the most important part of a conversation - and listening is so much more important than what you say.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.

I try to live in a little bit of my own joy and not let people steal it or take it.

When you're a big girl like me, you want someone who makes you feel diminutive. I think fat guys are sexy.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win.

Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.

You're not going to die," I told her, lifting my head to look at her. "I'm not done writing songs about you yet.

There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.

Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.

People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.

And there was no money in Chicago for a band.