I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

I write to believe in goodness.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

In all small things be honest and the big ones will take care of themselves.

Science is basically an inoculation against charlatans.

The way Pixar has always worked is that we think of an idea and then we make it. We don't develop lots of ideas and then pick one.

There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck.

I'm more liable to hurt myself than someone else.

Nature is beautiful, but not always pretty.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.