In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

If your lifeguard duties were as good as your singing, a lot of people would be drowning.

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

My advice would be if you want to pursue a career in the music business, don't.

Work hard, be patient, and be a sponge while learning your business. Learn how to take criticism. Follow your gut instincts and don't compromise.

I'd say the most dangerous thing I've ever done is probably bungee jumping in Thailand...

I think you have to judge everything based on your personal taste. And if that means being critical, so be it. I hate political correctness. I absolutely loathe it.

That was extraordinary. Unfortunately, extraordinarily bad.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

The best way to kill someone is from the inside, by crushing their hopes and dreams.

I write to reach eternity

Was then not all sorrow in time, all self-torment and fear in time? Were not all difficulties and evil in the world conquered as soon as one conquered time, as soon as one dispelled time?

The only time you ever really lose love is when you choose to let it go.

We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

I'm not just another bimbo.

Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines.

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be pacifist, and the third to be folk singer.

I know exaggerators of both kinds: people whose lies are only picturesque adjectives, and people whose picturesque adjectives are only lies.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.