It's the coolest feeling signing your record. And it's great when people come to your shows and know the words to the new songs.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. Because if you stay in your comfort zone, you would never do the things that you need to do.

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

The glory that was Greece.

The Democrats should have an empty chair on stage for the entire DNC, and when anyone asks who it belongs to, they can say Osama bin Laden.

I have always had a particular antagonism for the military.

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

If the American people in a matter of months can love the people of Kuwait, whom they have not seen, they can love the people of our nation's capital just as well.

The bank is something more than men, I tell you. It's the monster. Men made it, but they can't control it.

More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.

I stood in the lee of an overhanging rock and thought of many things.

Life is a process of continually reordering priorities.

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.