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

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.

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.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

When you are in a fix, often the fix is in you.

You know, I sometimes think that we Sort too soon....

In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.

I'd rather go with something eccentric--but beautifully eccentric.

A lot of times you tell yourself no with things, a lot of times you discourage yourself. I've told myself yes more than no, and with those yeses, I've been able to actually have a career.

The question of whether I, as a whistleblower, should be pardoned, is not for me to answer.

Songwriting helps me sort out my personal problems. With acting, you're just a tool for someone's ideas.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.