I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill

We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you.

I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.

It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

The ugliest woman you'll ever meet, but she's mine and she's ugly.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom.

If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

A belt does nothing but hold your gi together. A belt has assigned significance, a belt is someone else saying you're good, you don't need other people saying that you're good in order to be good.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

It was nice to be alone, not to have to smile and look pleased; a relief to stare dejectedly out the window at the sheeting rain and let just a few tears escape.