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.

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.

A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch

Arguing with one's self is beneficial.Out of all the million voices in my head screaming for your death, you're lucky I heeded the one that wants to spare you this time.

Evil can never hide itself for too long, Shane. Its ego is too big not to be heard or seen for so long

I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?

French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable.

Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.

You can't outsmart or outguess the audience in terms of what the narrative answer is.

Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

If you face a worthy opponent acknowledge their skills and show them yours.

The task of the strategist and leadership team is to reduce uncertainty in the areas that they can directly influence in order to pursue attractively difficult objectives.