All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

When you finally accept that it's OK not to have answers and it's OK not to be perfect, you realize that feeling confused is a normal part of what it is to be a human being.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

I was very depressed after breaking off my engagement with Johnny ten years ago. I was embarrassingly dramatic at the time, but you have to remember I was only 19 years old.

There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy. I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed, that life can be messy, that some days you glide and some days you fall, but most important, that there are no secret answers out there.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

You can't pay enough money to... cure that feeling of being broken and confused.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

He better call Becky with the good hair.

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in.

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice.

In general I try to spend the mornings connecting and keeping things organized, and then try and do more creative work in the afternoons.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

The Web is the new book though, innit?