I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Some stories always remain incomplete, until you do not read them complete with heart <3

Being is the greatest paradox of life in front of death.

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

In my first week as a U.S. senator, I had the privilege of participating in the Supreme Court confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

I definitely miss New Zealand. Mainly friends and family.

I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.

Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure.