At one point I thought changing my name might help with privacy, but that was before the Internet.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

Do you arrange your books alphabetically? (I hope not.)

Much of what happens in life is a chance.

the siren song/called silence

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.

Follow your passion. Be yourself, but check yourself before you wreck yourself.

The only way to achieve true success is to express yourself completely in service to society.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.