Having a newborn you have to teach yourself what patience is or you'll go crazy.

I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.

I have an older brother who is 21 and attends UC Berkley.

Confidence, not cockiness. Knowing who you are is confidence. Cockiness is knowing who you are and pushing it down everyone's throat.

I think that you have to restrain yourself from googling your name and have other hobbies and desires and wants. You do a million things. You go to school, you write, you read, you blog.

Always have a backup plan.

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Christian Louboutins are uncomfortable, but I screamed the first time I put on a Pointe Shoe.

I'm still a 'Star Trek' fan. You never stop being one.

I like to play guitar, jam out, play the blues, go watch movies. I love movies.

At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me.

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is humility.

Inspirational leadership connects to a highly motivated workforce which, in turn, means inspirational results

Pain is the fuel of passion - it energizes us with an intensity to change that we don't normally possess.

Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.

Sometimes you have go into a movie and develop a certain type of chemistry with your co-stars. Sometimes it can click from "Hello" and other times it takes a few weeks to develop that.

You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.