You can’t violate someone’s trust and expect there to be no consequences.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.

No one can be everything you want them to be.

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

This body is yours. It is your home. The keeper of your soul. The resting place of your spirit. No one can ever take that away.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.

If you see someone being bullied, make it stop. Why is that so hard for us to do?

My thing is that I'm in love with love. Actually, I'm in love with the possibility of true love. Which could be considered a major problem.

Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

Because if you take a risk, you just might find what you're looking for.

I want revenge, but I don't want to screw up my karma.

The bullshit detector is the biggest enemyof every religion."From: "Gesels van een imaginaire god"('Scourges of an imaginary god')

All my children inherited perfect pitch.

It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.

He caught her as if he were used to catching fainting girls, as if he did it everyday.

I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

You can believe a whole lot of foolish things, but God doesn't want you to do that. He wants your faith to rest upon the Word of God.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.

I believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with.