And if I let myself down, appear on stage when I'm not looking my best, it's not fun for me. I just beat myself up about it.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

If I can't write it would be as if I died.

I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.

The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.

As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.

Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc.

A lavish colored evocation of Hollywood now gone, as shown through an afternoon in the milieu of the 1920's film star.

If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.

The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted.

These last few years, working with Tim Burton, it's been the best time I've ever had.