I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.

I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'

I'll say it loud and say it proud. I'm completely insane.

Something happens to people around fame and power and money - it can bring out the worst and best in people; it's a monster you have to tame.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

Anytime I was in Memphis with my dad and at the house, I was happy. That was, like, a given. It was what I lived for. And I still feel the same excitement and warmth.

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out.

I want to pave my own path artistically.

I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

A big hole in a poor child’s shoe is the simplest evidence to condemn the society he lives in.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.

The way we do anything is the way we do everything. The way we eat is the way we live.

Your job as a leader is to try to inspire them to do more work than they've ever done in their life under conditions that they can't imagine.

The designer's job is to imagine the world not how it is, but how it should be.

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don’t work!

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.