I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

Awareness is empowering.

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

I'm not trying to prove anything.

If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.

In the afternoon the digestion of the meal deprives me of the incomparable lightness which characterizes the fast days.

Faith makes all things possible... love makes all things easy.

... vulgarity has no nation.

I'm in the kitchen and I'm not walking out.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.