I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick.

Do not let your light be dimmed by anybody who doesn't appreciate the dream that you're trying to pursue.

I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didnt dissuade me.

You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.

The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.

Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats.

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

Don't worry, eventually everything falls into its rightful place.

Glittering generalities! They are blazing ubiquities.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

The great thing about Dallas is there's no paparazzi.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.

Even touching Erdogan is a form of worship.

I know all the new phrases: 'cowabunga,' 'radical,' cat's pajamas,' 'duh,' and 'hey, homie don't play that.

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. Just workin'.