If you're not excited by it, why do you do it?

I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she likes shoes. The fairy tale is all about the shoe at the end, and I'm a big shoe girl.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Find out who you are & embrace it. It's so much easier to face criticism when you are comfortable in your own skin.

That's always been my philosophy: I try to just be as straightforward as possible, and then I don't really have to question what I said or regret anything.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

I find that in life all you can do is try to be honest about who you are and how you're feeling, and trust that it will be received in the correct way.

As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it.

A man who's powerful and strong yet is able to show tenderness and vulnerability, that's really sexy.

I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

You can contol nothing but your own thoughts, but with your thoughts you can control the whole world.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Do not have your child's hair cut by a real hairdresser in a real hairdressing salon. He is, at this point, far too short to be exposed to contempt.

I'm pretty much always planning two albums ahead.

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.