I feel like I'll always be a brunette, that's just who I am, but I love that I can switch it up and be whatever I want to be.

I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.

I'm really more of a jeans and T-shirt kind of a girl.

I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

Entertainment is such a non-reality.

The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.

I was a competitive swimmer in middle school and high school.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

I have an amazing relationship with food.

Christmas is a time of year that's so romantic.

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it.

ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

The living thing is not the clay molded by the potter, nor the harp played upon by the musician. It is the clay modeling itself.

Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.

I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

Negative thoughts are the nails that build a prison of failure.

For me, the live show is sort of the ultimate expression of this journey that I've been on.

Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy.

Few things are more powerful than learning to trust that your path to a fulfilled life - and the glorious destiny that you are meant to share with the world - is part of your soul's blueprint.