Basically I listen to just about everything except heavy metal.

I love having messy hair. I put in a lot of effort to have it look as messy as possible.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

It's not that easy to find someone I can relate too. I'm tough to crack because I'm shy.

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

I did gymnastics when I was growing up and to this day I can still do the splits.

Life is about change, sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time it's both.

When you have worked this hard to get this far, don't let up because you finally got here. Finish with your heart and fulfill this moment the way you have dreamt of it for so long.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Just because I don't do bad things doesn't mean I don't have bad thoughts.

The pain will always be in you — but you will not always be in pain.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It's when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.

I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.

They said I ignored the drug problem. Well, I gave speeches on drugs, I wrote books on drugs. I did darn near everything on drugs!

Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.