I've always been the bookish type, and I've never really hidden that about myself.

I can't believe I gave my panties to a geek.

I used to sing with my father's jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

Did you work for the money to buy those earrings? Or did your Daddy buy those for you?

I've done kissing scenes with people who have been loaded. I'd think, 'Do you actually have to drink that Jack Daniels to kiss me?'

The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.

Yes, my kids come first, but as a parent I need to come to them with a fresh mind. I can't be too exhausted or too tired. And I am a better parent when I have more energy.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive.

A lot of people don't realize that not everybody gets high.

Strive to discover why you exist and then begin to invest your time into your purpose and calling.

But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.

As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.

Kids are starting to dress the same, listen to the same music. I look at their Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

Whenever I got a new studio I made the largest possible painting, and since the ceiling was low, the painting became horizontal. As I changed studios and got larger spaces, I made bigger paintings.

The day that the leadership of the military comes to me and says, "Senator, we ought to change the policy," then I think we ought to consider seriously changing it.

Everyone deserves music.

I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.

I break all the rules and wear everything. Ruffles, ostrich feathers, fox coats. You look fat in fox anyway, so if you start fat, you only look a little fatter.