My success, I feel like, is credit - credit for a good job. I haven't even gotten a Grammy, yet I've already decided I want an Emmy.

I'm young. You can't just sit there and be satisfied.

I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.

Acting becomes my real job, writing becomes my second job, and then when I turn 50, I think I'm going to open up an interior decorating company.

I have a thing - I call it magic - but I feel like I can write stuff down in the middle of the night and wake up and it happens. I write what I want in my journal.

I'm going to become a real professional actress.

I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me unless it makes sense. There's a reason to see me.

I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.

I just like to stay creative. Anything that can keep my mind going.

I'm a songwriter who just wants to bring people great songs.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

It is restful to leave one's home; not because traveling does not entail varied and difficult daily actions, but because it removes our responsibilities.

I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

War is indefensible on every grounds, military and economic and diplomatic and also on moral.

The letter . . . What did your lords make of it, I wonder?” Stannis snorted. “Celtigar pronounced it admirable. If I showed him the contents of my privy, he would declare that admirable as well.

Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn't mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try.

God still hasn't recovered from the time that Satan doubted him....all God wants is someone to believe in him...God needs people to believe in him.

There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are.

A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

I've been fit and I've been fat, and fit is better.