I couldn't sacrifice my heart for a publicity stunt.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

Life is not about being complacent, its all about being competent.

Stories should be natural as apples, brief as lust, long as a thought.

It's the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

The fight training was very extensive, a lot of stretching, a lot of coordination of balance exercises.

For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.

Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.