People have been kind enough to compare me to Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston. I think it's amazing that they even put my name in the same sentence.

People will always show their true selves in the end.

I call myself a vegetarian with vegan tendencies.

I'm a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything.

Obviously, a long-distance relationship is hard. But, like anything worth having, you make it work.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat animals, so I won't wear them.

For me, love is happiness and inspiration.

If I can inspire people by showing that following a dream by working hard and being determined is possible, it's amazing.

Don't care about all the pain in front of me, cause I'm just trying to be happy.

I don't mind letting people in a little bit, but I have learned from the past not to talk too much about my relationships and to keep things as private as possible.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Just remember, if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off"- Cruz

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

He that is down needs fear no fall, he that is low no pride, he that is humble ever shall have God to be his guide.

The first thing we do let's kill all the lawyers.

You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking that got you into those problems in the first place.

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.