Economies are supposed to serve human ends. . not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.
I'm a bargain shopper.
I auditioned [for America's Most Talented Kids] just to see where I would rank. I had been playing [gigs] around town, and I wanted to see what people thought of me because when I played a show, everyone would clap but I didn't know what they were really thinking.
It's a little awkward to know that the world is going to see you and your mom argue about stupid things and watch me get grounded. . . again.
I want to go to Berkeley and major in music.
It's good for my fans to be able to connect with me as a person because I am a very normal 15-, 16-year-old girl. I still get in trouble. I still have boy problems and friend problems so it's just very good for my fans to see that.
My style philosophy is: Be comfortable.
We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.
The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.
The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.