My parents always pushed creativity on us, but they made it seem like the fun thing to do.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

She had the bizarre feeling of time bending all around her, as though she was from the past reading about the future, or from the future reading about the past.

God knows what is in my heart, In my life still i don't have the people whom i want.

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out.

As in twitter if you follow happiness... Happiness will follow you back

We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back.

Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of the world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom.

I tend to be reasonably blunt, maybe a little bit too much. But I just- I always respected people that tell the truth. And I've always wanted people to tell me the truth.

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.