I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.

I do love my avocados, which are great for the skin. I eat pretty healthfully.

Mediocrity is underrated.

People have a problem with me being different, but that propels me forward in life.

I don't get tired of hearing that somebody liked my work.

It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

I enjoy cooking and baking. Alicia Silverstone's vegan cookbook is awesome.

One person's crazy is another person's refreshing.

My mother is a beauty.

We do repent not to be forgiven, but because we are forgiven.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.

When I collaborated with Nelly Furtado, the idea for the song structure came from myself, but the lyrics and the ideas behind the songs came from her.

I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

Beyond doubt, there was a certain splendor in pain, which bore a deep affinity to the splendor that lies hidden within strength.