People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

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.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

I remind myself of the power of thought and how it's my obligation as a citizen (and student) of humanity to propel compassion.

I still have a dream of one day - I would love to hire a semi-retired contractor and just build a house - him and I building a house for me. I would truly love to do that

I think the Freudian impulse is in everything, so I just accept it. I don't always believe what Freud is saying but it sounds like fun.

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet.

Rascals, do you want to live forever?

A philosopher is a fool who torments himself while he is alive, to be talked of after he is dead.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

I want the concentration and the romance, and the worlds all glued together, fused, glowing: have no time to waste any more on prose.