Mom is the most unconditionally loving person I will ever know, and she has always supported me on every level.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

I have six brothers and sisters. We all look totally different: blonde hair, curly hair, green eyes, dark eyes, dark skin, light skin. It's just how it is.

It's downright undignified how many blazers I've bought over the years. And will continue to buy. They immediately give shape and add authority. With the perfect blazer, anything is possible.

Fail fast. Fail often... The most talented people in the world have bad ideas. That's a good thing to learn.

I don't think any other emotion is the equivalent of laughter. So I do whatever I can to laugh all the time and to hide my pain.

I was like, 'Oh, my God, girls are so pretty and soft. No stubble burn! What am I doing with guys?' [I] haven't dipped back since, but I was very appreciative of the experience.

People don't believe this, but Hollywood really is a meritocracy.

You can never stop discovering music.

Never underestimate what teens can understand or do. They're smart, creative, and fresh-minded. I wish I was one.

Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding oxen having once tasted the weightless bliss of flight?

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.

When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the truth. It's important that I can say the photo isn't beautiful or the photo shoot sucks.

People always say turn the other cheek. If you turn the other cheek, I'm gonna hit you in the other cheek too.

The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you - you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.

Everybody got a taste of success and everybody wants to keep elevating that to the next level.