You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.

Beautiful and rare Aurora, In the heavens thou art their Flora

Always speak and think kindly about yourself, because your soul needs your love and approval.

I have become a marketing tool and I feel very uncomfortable with that. There's no space for me to express myself.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

I'm very cerebral. I like to think things through.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

Humor was another of the soul's weapons in the fight for self-preservation.