Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now

I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.

I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

I'm one of those people who was taught not to ruffle any feathers. Of course, I have no problem ruffling feathers.

Human behavior is so intriguing. I find myself giving thumbs up signs all the time. I know I look like an absolute dork, but I do it anyway.

It's my job, to create a fantasy.

We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

I was a bit of a big mouth my whole life. I'm a person who expresses themselves with a lot of openness

You values are your life’s worth

God does give times of peace in our Christian lives, but it is not all of the time.

Many [Western Christians] habitually think and act as if there is no eternity. . . . We major in the momentary and minor in the momentous.

...when I closed my eyes and saw her drinking tea and opened them and still could see her, and I wanted so much to see more.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days

Typically your work will end up in a museum [after] you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead.

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

I sat for a moment, figuring things out, then decided to stay there. If I was on the floor, I couldn't fall down.

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

With existing technology, we can enforce airport security without sacrificing our personal privacy.