Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
If you work for it, you'll deserve what comes. Hard work.
Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
Once you get everything out of your head about what everybody else is going to think, will radio play it - and I hope they do, I really do - once you shed all of that and just be who you are, that's who I am. That's taken a lot of growing up. I've come into myself musically and as a woman, and I hope to keep growing. If you don't grow, you die.
When I was on 'Idol' and 17, everything was so new. Everyone is so nice and wants to see you succeed.
Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.
I don't know what Tracy Morgan does onstage, but I can assure you, it's no act.
Once you've worked as a writer and editor in the world of social media for a decade, the way I have, you start to notice patterns.
I cut my own hair most of the time. You just do it all by feel.
I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
I don't think poetry is something that can be taught. We can encourage young writers, but what you can't teach them is the very essence of poetry.
Once you start looking at the world rationally, it becomes much more exciting.
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
To me, growing up in South Wales, a pair of Diesel jeans were the thing to have - if you could afford them.
When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
You don't have a balanced life if you don't have art.
Of course, when it comes to Japanese role-playing games, in any role-playing game in Japan you're supposed to collect a huge number of items, and magic, and you've got to actually combine different items together to make something really different.
You are in the back of your head somewhere and you want to close your eyes and go away.
I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
As a business owner, what's the sense in having droves of followers and connections if you aren't able to turn them into paying customers?
Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.
But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!
Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.
Joining Yes was one of those stupid things that you do sometimes. It was one of the two or three times in my life that I've done something that I knew was wrong.
Whatever your purpose is that leads you to the point of no return, that's where you go.
The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much.
Right before I left New York, I had my manager tell me, 'You need to get a girl on your arm, or people will start talking.'
Many people are looking to Washington for answers, but I'm here to tell you, if we wait for the politicians to solve the problems of our day, we will be waiting a long time.
Not to be too preachy, but I would really recommend to people, if you get the chance, to trust yourselves to leap without a net, because that will build the confidence. You know, you might shock yourself with how much you don't need a net because you can catch yourself.
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
I like the end of the year to be about something. Especially with younger shows, the network pushes you to make self-contained episodes; they don't like them to be serialized: 'We want this one to be funny for someone who's never watched it and will never watch again.' And I go 'Why would anyone want to do it like that?'
I'm married to a health-conscious American. I try to eat well, but definitely, as an Australian, you have some of the red meat, lamb, steak, barbecues as part of your culture.
I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.
You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.
