I always find it fascinating to ask people, why they've chosen to live their life as an artist? Why be an actor, a singer, an author, a filmmaker? I've heard such inspiring answers to that question.

If your dream only includes you, it's too small.

Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your goal.

Figure out what you need to do to be the heroine of your own story.

Don't wait for permission to do something creative.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic.

We have to find new ways to work without permission, new ways to turn corners and go through doors that are closed off to us to create our own audiences and our own material independently.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

Stop asking, start doing.

If your work is solid, it really doesn't matter what people you know because good work starts to rise to the top.

Don't want to think about it? No problem. Don't think about it.

We're all in this together ... alone.

The toddler must say no in order to find out who she is. The adolescent says no to assert who she is not.

I need the Christ that is in you, and you need the Christ that is in me.

I don't want to throw him nothing. Maybe he'll just get tired of waiting and leave.

Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon.

It would be great to see somebody like Kid Rock kissing a man. But I'm sure that he wouldn't like the prospect of it put to him, and I won't even go there with Eminem.

It pleases me that people can be interactive

It's love,' they say. You touch the right one and a whole half of the universe wakes up, a new half.