No matter how bad the individual, everybody has reasons for why they do what they do.

The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don't have control over your situation. But you have a choice about how you view it.

The more you are positive and say: "I want to have a good life." The more you build that reality for yourself; by creating the life that you want.

I believe in luck and fate and I believe in karma, that the energy you put out in the world comes back to meet you.

It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I do like dating cynics - they tend to be incredibly funny.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

I'm more cerebral than I want to be.

One thing that I do find really sexy is a girl who's good at crossword puzzles.

My nipples could cut glass.

I'm not a social singer. But if one can take a social message via the romantic, that's a strong statement.

Cows scream louder than carrots.

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

Kill your television. Throw it out the darn window. Watch PBS in a bar.

No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy, when the so-called counselors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees. -Artemis Fowl

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

I play the unsinkable Molly Brown, which is where she got her name from, because she survived.

Delivery is about being more efficient, it's about numbers, and it's about extracting costs.

I think you're a taker. You've always been one. It's like God left some part of you out when He built you inside of me.