When I do my own makeup, I keep things pretty simple.

My dream car would be a Maserati. That would be amazing.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

I'd love to be a Bond girl. I mean, if you're going to be stereotyped, there are worse things to be stereotyped as.

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey.

I think escapism is really important.

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie.

I will not go on a blind date.

Women always want to be what they're not: If you're the pretty girl, you want to be the quirky girl. If you're the smart girl, you want to be the pretty girl.

Also, when you think about a show that you used to watch as a kid or as a teenager, you look at it through sort of rose colored glasses when you remember it.

Why are you surprised when the thing you run from as hard as you can only gets after and better at chasing you ...

Recovery is the ability to see things with clarity, "freed from the drab blur of greatness or familiarity – from possessiveness.

For me, a paint brush is the only tool I use extensively in my works, to push paint on canvas and conduct melodies. And that's exactly what Garden Avenue is, and all of my projects after that.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

I love coming to work. I never have a bad day.

I tell myself that, regardless of what source I draw on, I'm writing a new work for reasons peculiar to me and not an adaptation, and so feel, in the end, justified in singing it my way.

We are all equal before the law, but not before those appointed to applyit.

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

I'm not leaving until you say yes.