You know, your speaking voice comes back, but your singing voice you use in a different way.

A gourmet meal without a glass of wine just seems tragic to me somehow.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.

Chocolate's okay, but I prefer a really intense fruit taste. You know when a peach is absolutely perfect... it's sublime. I'd like to capture that and then use it in a dessert.

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

If you say that you're all about a certain something, and look back and see that the choices that you've made don't reflect that, then there's something for you to look at.

You've got to dance like nobody's watching, and love like it's never going to hurt.

Standing knee deep in a river and dying of thirst.

I want to savor the aging process. As you get older, you trade your innocence for wisdom and the wisdom is your reward.

Oh Mom, it turns out my knight in shining armor was just some liar in tinfoil.

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

A simple smile. That's the start of opening your heart and being compassionate to others.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

I don't want you to misunderstand me. You might get up and state what you believe to be Seventh-day Adventism, and I might not agree with everything you said.

The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.