My mentors are people like Cameron Crowe and Carrie Fisher.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

Only dumb people are happy.

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

One of the things you learn about being married is that being with someone day in and day out can make you so comfortable that you risk losing your tact.

Make no mistake. You are your most important critic and your conscience your most important judge of character.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.

Speaker Newt Gingrich says that what is wrong with the present system is not that people abuse welfare but that welfare abuses people.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

I came into adult life equipped with an essentially romantic ethic.

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears

These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.