I'm not trying to prove anything.

Awareness is empowering.

Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level.

You've got to want to be married to the person you're married to.

I would go to school and be American and then come home and be Greek.

Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.

I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.

As a woman, I feel women get the shaft all the time.

The Greek side of me definitely loves a good meal, a lot of laughing, loud discussions.

I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on.

We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference.

It's a labour of love. And you are both the labour and the love.

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

As much as I would miss my wife if she were to die, I would miss what we are together even more. Our "we-ness," our "us-ness."

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.

To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.

Inner resources are like natural resources; they both dry up eventually when the demands on them are heavy.