Sometimes [high school speech team] was funny, other times it was just talking, but it gave me the confidence to speak in front of people after doing that for a whole year.

I don't want to die tomorrow knowing I could've had a piece of cake tonight.

There's 5 levels of fatness! Fluffy is one of the levels. There's big, healthy, husky, fluffy and damn.

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

I drink diet coke so I can eat regular cake.

Me racist? The only race I hate is the one you have to run.

Life is measured by how you lived it, not by the years.

With all the classes they offer at school, how come they don't have one for common sense?

When you go to Hawaii, it's all about "Aloha." It means hello, goodbye and I love you.

You live by the cake, you die by the cake.

I had to travel half way across the world to be called an American.

Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?

I listen mostly to classical music.

I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.

I've always written songs for the sake of my own sanity and expression.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

I'm always 100% committed to a character, a story and a director, and with Michael Mann it was 1,000%. I don't know how to explain this.

I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion.

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

Human thought by its nature is capable of giving, and does give, absolute truth, which is compounded of a sum-total of relative truths.