I read a quote the other day that said comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. And what happens is that you're saying that you're not good enough.

I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

I grew up with a lot of boys. I probably have a lot of testosterone for a woman.

I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one.

I'm living my life as a journey. My quest is to make it better every year.

Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.

You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.

I hate committing myself to anything. It's probably the lack of discipline, honestly. I'm probably a spoiled brat worried about getting my way every time.

I would rather be a poor man in a rich country than a rich man in a poor country.

For 'Singin' in the Rain,' I bought most of the costumes - the 'Fit as a Fiddle' costumes and the 'Make Them Laugh' Donald O'Connor outfits and the 'Good Morning, Good Morning' clothes we danced in.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.

Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets.

I think I'm less the writer than I'm the written.

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.

Anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.