There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.

Cocaine is like really evil coffee.

Only dumb people are happy.

I wish I was beautiful or at least wise, but I’m simply mad and violent.

My number one thing to work on is not being reactive - but appropriateness doesn't come easily to me sometimes.

I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

Allow the courage to create overwhelmed you.

Opening to love will always involve risk, but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy.

My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!

Being poor is a normal thing.

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

I felt so lonesome, all of a sudden. I almost wished I was dead.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

I do think Under Armour is setting a new example for what a ballerina is, and that you can be feminine and an athlete and represent what a woman is at the same time.

But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?