I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

When youre a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it cant last forever.

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

To show courage you must be in tune with your core values, understand your own fears and desires, committed to your integrity and tenacious in your ability to live it all in the face of oppostion.

He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories.

Eyes are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure it's nice to say very good dialogue, if you can get it. But great movie acting - watch the eyes!

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

Story is about originality, not duplication

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