You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.

I love art and fashion.

I've chosen to get the word out to women, especially young women, that tobacco is not glamorous - it's addictive and smoking takes a serious toll on your health.

Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.

I'm a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements.

Though I've turned 21, I don't drink. I'm an old hag now. I'm just an old fart.

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people.

I'm such a huge fan of the horror genre and the supernatural elements... There was something that happened to me. It was easy to be wild and crazy, and just let go and attack people.

It's nice when people want your autograph, but it's a little strange because I never expected it.

I had to learn how to love myself and trust me it’s not the type of thing that happens over night.

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.

Most of us are not leaders today because, in our hearts we don't believe that is who we are.

I think no matter what you do you can't please everybody. You have to ask yourself, "Did I do what I set out to do?"

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.