I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

I’m a big lipstick girl- I’m old school that way.

Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'

As artists, it's really important to take time to see what other art is happening and to know what's happening in the world.

The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.

I've been an audience member for friends in plays that I don't enjoy and I have to lie to their faces. It's just part of that lifestyle unfortunately, especially in New York.

As consumers, we can buy organic and non-GMO verified products, so look out for those labels when shopping!

I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.

And if I forget how many times I have been here, and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.

Women! I have no idea. I don't know anything about women at all. They're a complete mystery to me.

Find your spirit, and no challenge will keep you from achieving your goals.

I got hate letters from girls all over America because I wouldn't go to the prom with them.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

I think life has got to develop as you get older, and I don't want to be wandering along doing the same old thing. I want more out of life.

Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!

I think if you're lucky, you start to make music and it gets things out.