But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it's inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can't really work for other people.

When you're the most happening person at the party, it's time to leave

I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.

In breaking away from the familiar and the expected, you'll be forced and privileged to face greater challenges, learn harder lessons, and really get to know yourself.

You find out who you are by figuring out who and what you're not

Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.

Dreams won't always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they're usually related to what your soul wants for you.

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.

I knew it wasn't good when it happened. It's definitely scary. Every now and then, something brings you back to reality.

I kept thinking, I went to college and I have to get a real job.

I think a sense of humor is the emotional equivalent of a sense of realism. One should not take everything seriously, and everybody takes some things seriously.

But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.