On an average day, we allow ourselves the fiction that we own a piece of our workplace. That's part of what it takes to get the job done. Deeper down, we know it's all on loan.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

Good art is art that allows you to enter it from a variety of angles and to emerge with a variety of views.

One thing you might want to learn before you attend the world's largest ukulele lesson is how to say ukulele.

Don't waste your time on jealousy.

Don't waste time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.

TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

The most deafening sound in all creation, is the sound of absolute silence.

I'm very much a romantic. I'm highly attuned to an older sensibility, which I believe is alive and well. We're not that far ahead of the Romantic Age in society.

Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

In order to have a lasting career you'll need to spend time performing live to build your own audience, as it's not all about social media. Word of mouth still rules.

Music of today is not even in the same building as music from the '70s.

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible.

I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.

Resourcefulnes s is the cure to failure. Successful people are resourceful and find a way to make it work.

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.