I have "come back" [to music scene] so many times, people are just like, Is this another one?... It's kind of like a joke to me now.

I'm usually all about the tight jeans and little T-shirt, but sometimes I want to put on a black, sequined dress and be a freaking girl

I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs, although it can all get a bit crazy. Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face! I was like, 'Hello?'

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

You'll never see it my way, because you're not me!

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water...

But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.

Be according to your possibility.

We loved—and were fated to sorrow. But from our striving and from our sorrow we fashioned The Oldest Story in the World.

If you try to nail anything down, in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nail.

My mom and dad have had a huge impact on my life, so I look up to them. As a actor, I would say Hugh Jackman.

We shall always keep a spare corner in our heads to give passing hospitality to our friends' opinion.

It was tough. I told [my kids] mommy is on her semester abroad, which is still going on apparently.

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.