I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness.

There's a lot more to life than how fat or thin you are.

Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.