The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

I've been vegetarian for so long now that I don't remember anything different, so it's easy for me to put meals together and make sure my family is eating healthy, too.

Take no moment for granted.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

The person who I have my child with is going to be the right person.

I think maintaining relationships with my friends, my mother, my manager, they're all important.

I wasn't one to go out and buy a new car and stereo system and expensive clothes. My mom helped keep me grounded.

I was just shaking and then also immediately, I had to go into 'take-care-of-business-mode' which included a change to a more healthy diet.

Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think that it's all part of the healing.

...trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own.

An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.

The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there.

Music to me is something I did as a hobby.

I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.