I always sang. I wanted to be in a band with my sister, and I was, at 11. At 12, I started writing seriously, and that was my pacifier all through high school - that and painting.
I don't belong to the straights now - they didn't get me back.
It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.
I think self-exploration is one of the journeys in life that we are blessed to be able to have.
I've always kind of gone with my heart.
We do not fall in love with the package of the person, we fall in love with the inside of a person.
I'm very grateful for the platform that I've had in my life to speak out about the things I care about.
Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.
Part of the reason I embrace nonviolence is that it's the most effective thing we can do. It's a more advanced tactic than violence. If people who engage in violence want to escalate their tactics, they would escalate to nonviolence.
I am the byproduct of an Ellis Island orgy, basically. I'm everything. I've got quite a mixture in me. I know a lot of it and I don't know some of it. I'm pretty mixed up, but mostly Russian and Irish.
It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.