I love getting my nails done. My mom's best friend is a manicurist. When I was little, she'd do little paintings on my nails, like flowers.

I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.

I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It's my favorite thing to do.

I think the Beatles are a lot of people's favorite band.

I'm an only child, and after making the movie [Yours, Mine and Ours], I know it would be awesome to have 17 brothers and sisters in real life.

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

I'm on the Web a lot. I like to play games online. Sometimes I play Sims.

Growing up, my next door neighbor was my best friend and an only child too.

One fan asked me to sign their sock. That was crazy. They just took off their shoe and handed me their sock and asked if I'd sign it.

I might die if I forget how to breathe.

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.

The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

Well, Brief Encounter is certainly one of my top five favorites of all time. I looked at Brief Encounter very closely, to be honest.

One good man, one good man, it ain't much - it's only everything.

The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing.

"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment.

Alcohol is not the answer to all questions

Cronshaw stopped for a moment to drink. He had pondered for twenty years the problem whether he loved liquor because it made him talk or whether he loved conversation because it made him thirsty.