I'm just saying -- you can't prevent other people from disappointing you. It's bound to happen at some point. We're all only human. What you can do is decide how you're going to deal with it.

Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.

The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.

Don't believe everything you hear

No one believes a liar. Even when she's telling the truth.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the naughtiest of them all?

Every pretty girl is a heartbreaker

The best secrets are the most twisted

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.

Without Mona, Hanna felt like a great outfit without matching accessories, a screw-driver that was all orange juice and no vodka, and an iPod without headphones. She just felt wrong.

Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets.

I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

What I enjoy most about performing is making people happy. Just to make a person smile means more to me than anything.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

To move foward, you have to leave the past behind

My gratitude to Ridley [Scott] isn't anything new. I named one of my kids after him. But he's a very important person to me.