I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

You have to do the work. You have to make the opportunity. It doesn’t find you, you find it.

Dreams are the result of a million choices, a billion failures, and a few successes.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

Be brave, fight for what you believe in and make your dreams your reality

Love isn't who you can see yourself with. It's who you can't see yourself without.

To find yourself, you must first lose yourself

Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

I like to employ the power of no. We all want to say yes, because with yes comes so much opportunity, but with the power of no comes focus and engagement.

PLEASE REMEMBER WHEN YOU ARE FULL OF DOUBT AND IT ALL SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE THAT THERE IS STILL SOME WHO BELIEVES IN YOU, ME. XO

Even if everybody says it’s impossible, with determination, there is always something you can do. The last thing is to give up without trying.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend.

Mom was the midwife who delivered stories to me.

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Video games lend themselves completely to 3-D.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

It is less difficult for a woman to obtain celebrity by her genius than to be forgiven for it.

The realisation of one's own death is the point at which one becomes adult.

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.