Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something.

The world is a drought when out of love.

The girl I find who wants to talk about quantum theory in a bar is the one I want to marry.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.

Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between, I swear, I can't make up my mind.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub.

President Obama released his tax returns. It turns out he made $900,000 less in 2011 then he did in 2010. You know what that means? Even Obama is doing worse under President Obama.

He wasn't sure exactly which day, but what's noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

Know your own Self. Honor your own Self. Find and be who you really are, at the deepest level of your own being. Be present in your own presence. Give yourself the gift of your own Self.

I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.

You know what? I didn't mess up about Paul Revere... In a shout-out, gotcha type of question that was asked of me, I answered candidly. And I know my American history.