The monsters are in your own head

Far away, to an infinite world I escape. I'm clear and calm, I'm unafraid. Sunless days, in my sheltered milkyway. In Saturn's rings I feel no pain.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.

I'm a songwriter who's put my childhood memories and teenage angst into songs.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.

Just watching my cats can make me happy.

I think it's important to find the little things in everyday life that make you happy.

We all want to know and be known. That's why doing good is so powerful when the focus is first and foremost the people and not the project.

Keep faith in your abilities to deal with an uncertain next

There ain't no revolution, only evolution, but every time I'm in Georgia I eat a peach for peace.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

I'm a high school teacher. I'm someone who stumbles my way through, leads with my chin in some cases, leads with my heart in all cases.

If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.

One of the coolest things was that, in 2007, I got to go to Iraq with Rob Riggle, Paul Scheer, and Horatio Sanz. We went over there to do some comedy shows with the U.S.O.

A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.