Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.

I'm more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of girl.

Why is partying and having a good time bad?

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.

I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.

Believe. Believe in yourself. Believe in others. Believe there is positive in everything.

I really look forward to knowing that something is always possible.

Loved ones. They are my backbone. They are the people that I turn to when I need the most support and the people who come to me when they are in need.

I admire a lot of actors; I think a lot of them have so much talent.

If you can’t save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Most of us are brainwashed by our society so we become the reflection of that society.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.

Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.