It's a wonderful thing to write. You can reclaim the things you lost.

You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'emBut you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

He smiles, and he's made of trouble. We should have dropped him in the Thames in a bag of stones. We should have left him out for the fairies.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

Cruelty impresses, people want to be afraid of something. They want someone to whom they can submit with a shudder, the masses need that. They need something to dreed.

I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent.

The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.

I think that's important to have in something like a national television show. It's important to portray a woman realistically, and not just as a bridezilla.

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think.