I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

Life is a chaotic gives who will not add nothing to it and deprives who want to add to it

What is a monster? Something that grows hair all over and howls? Could be. But the real monster is within, and when it comes out, it’s as fugly as you see it, or as it lets you see it.

What I should do and what I want to do are two opposing forces. I have no idea which way I am going to end up.

Temporary madness may be necessary in some cases, to cleanse and renovate the mind; just as a fit of illness is to carry off the humours of the body.

We're highly adaptable and have developed some powerful systems of representation.

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth!

It(Boston Bombings) was worth it to hear you(survivor speakers) speak.

I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable.

I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.

There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.