I love kids with a passion I usually reserve for hot cheese, miniature chairs, and Prince concerts, but I feel no stress to reproduce simply because of a fear of withering eggs.

Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.

Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

We fall in love with one version of someone and we expect them to stay that way, but they never do.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

In a thousand years, archeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette. I feel like people treat me now how I should be treated. People used to be shocked, when I was blond, that I wasn't stupid.

Enjoy the pregnancy, not racing ahead and relishing the moment. I think people see pregnancy as something to get over with, but every stage of becoming a mother is really special.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

We need to remind ourselves of the beauty of human connection and of nature and pull ourselves out of devices for a moment and appreciate what it is just to be human beings.

If mediocrity is your benchmark, you always sit on the bench!

Knowledge does not equate to intelligence. It is the application of knowledge that separates the genius from the fool.

The hot, moist smell of babies fresh from naps.

However common irreverence and profanity become, they are nonetheless wrong

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

I just try to get people to laugh - I'm not trying to change the world or anything.

My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

Just wear what you want, if you like something that's all that matters. Dress for yourself not for other people.

The work of art, though bound by its genetic markings and indelible fingerprints, is boundless in the infinite elaborations of its destiny, and therefore in the range of its interpretations.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.