Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

My parents wanted me to be a lawyer. But I don't think I would have been very happy. I'd be in front of the jury singing.

All your failures are intrigues of the devil

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like we're living in war-torn Bosnia or something.

Death is not an end. It is a new impulse.

To put it as simply as possible - and this is a simple answer, not a total answer - I know when a painting's finished when I understand why I wanted to do it in the first place.

I like both slapstick and contradiction. Like philosophers.

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?

I'm a firm believer in the idea that theater excels over film and TV in its ability to let people play with poetry.

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

When you live for the fight, for the blood, the relationships you form are tenuous and easily broken.