I went to national piano competitions and did that whole circuit. Then I played professionally to support myself when I moved out to LA.

In my fantasy I was always the savior. I would come to 'Peanuts' land and save everybody. Charlie Brown would fall madly in love with me. Peppermint Patty was so jealous.

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Acting is magical. Change your look and your attitude, and you can be anyone.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.

Everything was okay, as long as I could dream . Its amazing, really, the difference between having a dream and not having any left that can come true. It's the difference between living and dying .

I don't know that I'm actually bipolar, but I definitely have huge mood swings, and I'm definitely passionate about the way I feel. I'm not really lukewarm one way or the other.

So the moral of this week is: if you do something really, really stupid in front of someone you're just getting to know and they still think you're awesome, then you got yourself a friend.

You'll say I'm self-destructive I constructed all this tragedy. Go tell them all it's all my fault You'll tell them I was crazy . And anyway it's over now Nothing left to say.

It occurred to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem.

The Law of God was never a ladder for unsaved people to climb up to heaven. It was always a pattern of life for God’s people who had been saved from judgment by the blood of the Lamb.

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.

Maybe! Maybe! Maybe if your aunt had a beard, she'd be your uncle.

We're so absorbed in the effort to get rich, we no longer recognize when we are rich.

The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.

As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'

These are tough and unusual times and I don't see the negative global economic situation abating anytime soon.

Sometimes I get scared that I’m going to enter a web address into Twitter thinking it was my browser. That would be bad.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.