What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.

Any obsession is dangerous.

I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it's really you're individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.

Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.

Remember who you are. It's really okay to be who you are.

People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

I'm stuck in between a nightmare and lost dreams

The music should be first, not the ego or the personality or the style.

An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.

A third of our kids, after we spend more per student than any country in the world other than a couple rounding errors, 30 percent are college- and/or career-ready.

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Every little moment has a meaning all its own.

The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

As much as I make my music for me, I make it for the people who rock with me and follow me. They're the inspiration behind it.

I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.