Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

You know, everybody's ignorant, just on different subjects.

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.

Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

Don't see haters as a reason to give up; instead see them as a sign that you are starting to become successful.

Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.

Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

It is essential to his happiness that he should continually advance.