I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

I live a normal life.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

The same numbness and disappointment every day sends some people looking for something tragic for proof of life.

Look in his eyes. He has died a thousand times these last moments...You defeated him utterly the moment you saw fear in his eyes. All else is redundancy.

It's so easy to conform and to follow. It's very difficult to be rebellious and live by what you believe is right. And to make decisions and to take the consequences. Very few people do.

The revolution that takes place in your head, nobody will ever see that.

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.

See I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

Europe lacks leadership and a sense of mission and too many people don't feel a part of it.

But Winter has yet brighter scenes-he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with many hues.