I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

I believe in karma, and I believe if you put out positive vibes to everybody, that's all you're going to get back.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

I do have a stylist who helps me shop, because I don't have time to shop.

When you're around me, you're going to get glitter on you.

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

I embrace the imperfections and celebrate them.

Every weird thing about you is beautiful and makes life interesting.

Go insane go insane, throw some glitter, make it rain...!

My favorite wild animal is a narwhal - the unicorn of the sea. It’s a whale with a tooth that sticks out of its head that’s almost two-thirds the length of its entire body.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice.

It is better to be sorrowful than sad.

A dialysis patient's life is hard. Laugh harder.

This was the first of the sorrows of Turin.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

I miss my mother very much, and I feel closest to her when I have dinner in the oven and the children are nearby playing and I'm reading a book or doing some little project.

Journalism is less addictive than communism.

I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated.

I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything

You need a lot of curiosity for a long, long time.