There's this whole assumption that girls like bad boys, but I have to disagree; I think 'nice' will go a long way.

I'm horrified of lobsters. And shrimp and lobsters are the cockroaches of the ocean.

Hey, we all have our fear. Mine is bugs and lobsters!

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

I just don't think there's a sunscreen that gives you enough protection.

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

I've always been a person that believes in eating often and eating smart, clean meals.

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

Most of the time I believe in letting kids go ahead and make their own mistakes - maybe even get a little hurt - and learn from them.

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that God is a very creative author, and He writes a different story for every person. No two lives or stories alike.

Making the effort to experience daily joys a powerful mood enhancer. Find your bliss today!

What is the most important thing in your life?For me, it is my freedom of mind, my freedom to choose my own ways of self-construction or self-destruction.

I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs

The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

There are simple answers to the nation's problems, but not easy ones.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.