If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.

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.

It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.

My shadow in my art is one way I trace who I was and where I have been. My shadow and I have been on a journey for quite a while now!

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

Do yourself a favor; don’t wear yourself out trying to please everybody. Your time is too valuable.

I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.

Not everything that’s cool is science, but everything in science is cool.

Develop a mind so filled with love that it resembles space.

Historic justice has been done by killing Saddam.

I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.