Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

If rain is God crying, I think God is drunk and his girlfriend just slept with Zeus.

To realize your dreams, you must first take action towards those dreams.

Writing out your goals is the first action in a chain of many on the road to achievement.

I have never grown up, but I will never stop growing.

Now my body is really womanly - a little too much so. It's someting I can fall back on. When I don't know what else to do, I stick my chest out.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

People always ask why I don't make independent movies. I do make independent movies - I just make them at Sony and Paramount.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

The receptionist looked us over, then went back to typing something incredibly urgent—like her résumé́ for another job.

People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.

As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.