Before I put another notch in my lipstick case, you better make sure you put me in my place.

You can't change the past so don't let it haunt you. You can change the future but first you've got to want to.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

You're a heartbreaker, dream maker, love taker, don't you mess around with me.

With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.

You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh.

You're the Picasso of pain.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent.

If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.

He gives new meaning to the word bombed.

That's what we think because we can't imagine what it's like to not exist.

I have come to realize that all my trouble with living has come from fear and smallness within me.

China is at a different stage of development, human rights are violated here much more often. And still, we see improvements even here.

I'm gonna live my life. I won't watch the time go by. I won't keep it inside. Freak out, let it go.

Mama stroked his dinger, Daddy got stinky finger.

Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.

In the television business, I don't think anyone will let you go in and pitch a show unless you use the words 'organizing principle' or 'this is the prism through which we see their lives'.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

Filmmaking in general is just really where I'm putting all of my energy.