I've always worked really hard, and the hardest thing I've ever done is have kids!

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

The evidence of Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I have a dream” declaration was a passionate confirmation of how a dream meant for liberation, success and fulfilled life can become true.

Publishing would be so wonderful without those wretched authors.

Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who will work hard enough to bring them about.

I'd made these experimental films but I thought the major chore of a filmmaker was to relate to actors.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Without ... the creative imagination rushing in where bureaucratic angels fear to tread - without this, life is a mockery and a disgrace.

The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind; He stumbles through existence with his headlight on behind.

I would have worked with the devil himself if he'd been for the six hour day and worker control of the hiring hall.

Divorce: fission after fusion.

I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.