It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds.

New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.

Don't let a mad world tell you that success is anything other than a successful present moment.

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step.

The philosophy of jazz represents tolerance, teamwork and inclusion. That's what America is about. The music reflects that.

Every day you have less reason not to give yourself away.