I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill

We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

Mercantile jealousy is excited, and both inflames, and is itself inflamed, by the violence of national animosity.

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

I'm always working on a few different stories at once, so there's always some really big coffee table book I'm carrying around.

When you look at the Lady Gagas of the world, or the Jay-Zs, or the Black Eyed Peas, these are people who have one album release and it's a worldwide one.

I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others.