Britney Spears. Because she's a girl, I wouldn't smack her - I'd lock her in a closet with poisonous spiders or something. Let her think about what she's doing to the youth culture of America.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

The story of Balaam is also a good reminder that just because a person can flow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit doesn't mean they have character.

You know what they say about air and water when it comes to fire, don’t you?” she

I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.

Children love secret club houses. They love secrecy even when there's no need for secrecy

With work increasingly invisible, it's much harder to grasp the human effects, the social contours, of the Internet economy.

Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Fans are fans. I hated and loved them, hated and loved them, hated and loved them.

Thank you for bringing me home.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.