In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

Something I've noticed as I get older is that I do think about the future more. It's all positive thinking.

I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back.

I live a normal life.

I think it's really important to live in the moment.

I wasn't interested in fame or fortune. I was interested in being an actor and being creative. I was very adamant about that.

Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.

I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

I'm pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.

I used to paint a lot of oil and now I paint more mixed-media stuff.

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

I have no problem with any question.

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.

Differences in approaches do exist, and in one short moment it is impossible to overcome all of them, but i'm convinced ahead of us we have a constructive dialogue.

It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.