That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

I look at my roommates who are so proud of me that it makes me proud.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

Mama always said a good family has one heartbeat. No one knows you like the people you live with, and no one will take up your cause to the outside world quite like your blood relatives.

I even love the smell of books.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who want to know the facts, and those who want to make up a nice story to feel better. I wish I was the kind who made up stories.

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows.

Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

To encounter great moments, you must mostly be in motion!

I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.

No one stays for you. Everybody stays depending on their need for you.

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.

People who are tired of K Street corruption and Wall Street greed are ready for Main Street Values.

I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.

First ask why, and decide whether something is worth doing. Only after that should you set about doing it as well as you can.

The songs are always drawn from personal experience; I'm putting myself into my music. I usually am playing myself. It's art, art that represents my life.