Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body.

Be generous when you are giving your love.

Everyone deserves the chance to survive. I think of this every time I see another disaster. There are probably people dying who don’t have to.

Strong emotions create significant changes

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

It seemed as if I could see things in her that others couldn't see, qualities which not even she was aware of. It was as I I could already see in her the woman she would later become.

The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.

I don't know why, the very first word on my very first record is 'Jesus.' I still invoke him as an entity to reckon with.

I've always just wanted to tell stories, and create stuff, and I think "Creator" or "Director" would probably be the two words that I go to first.

I personally have stopped eating seafood.