I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

I really hope that when someone puts my record on that they hear me.

Don't ever feel inhibited. It's harder to censor yourself than to just be yourself.

Life is too short to surround yourself with people who aren't looking out for you.

I have this red cardigan that my friend Coco gave me that has holes for thumbs. It's my cozy sweater. I wear it a lot.

My mom used to ask me when I was gonna write a happy song. I still tell her that it's when I start to write really happy-sounding songs that everyone needs to start worrying.

Everything will be okay. I have a sticker on my laptop that says that.

I'm excited to go study and read and immerse myself in something.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

I don't want to bury anything in poetry.

Success is not in what you have, but who you are.

He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

You have always understood and accepted my most genuine, most intimate impulses and responded to them with surprising accuracy. I wish all people turned into such mirrors for each other.

It isn't drugs addicts have to give up. It's misery.

Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.

Somehow he became certain the he himself possessed the skills of a hypnotist. How he reached this judgement, I have no idea, but never convinced the rest of us.

I'm content with life, and I'm finally at that place where I feel relaxed and can really enjoy what's going on around me.

People love to see reactions, they love to see emotions that come about.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.