You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

I'd rather put on a pair of jeans and get on my Harley and act like a guy.

I wished my heart would break and get it over with.

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

Architects need to restore and protect.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

I hate two kinds of sentences you hear in workshops, the ones beginning "I really like ..." and the ones beginning "My problem with this poem is ..."

Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

To learn, you have to listen. To improve, you have to try.