Trusting fate is like gambling on an unknown outcome with unknown consequences.

The pursuit of common dreams only produces common results.

True freedom is the choice to create the desires one believes in.

The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find then implement your own desires.

In life you have the freedom to pursue whatever your heart desires.

The cost of freedom is being strong enough to find the implement your own desires.

Harnessing change is the most valuable tool available for creating the reality that you clearly desire.

Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself.

How to get back on the right track can be quite simple if you know what you want.

Life is a mind game of creation.

The mind is an empire unto itself.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.

I brooded over it. If it had been any other dream, I would have ignored it. But it was one of those dreams. One of those purple dreams. One of those dreams that had an unusual tendency to come true.

I needed to stop hiding: I was raped. It was time to honestly be exactly who I was. I saw—the shame wasn't mine, it was his, and I could stop misrepresenting myself, and I could accept myself.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.

Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

I have been very fortunate to have been able to make a living from what I love to do best - performing and singing for people.