Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

You shape your own destiny.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Copying one person is stealing. Copying ten is research.

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It wasn't my environment.

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.

At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that's why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

I'm happy to fight anybody.

Sci-Fi is the genre that explored both possibilities: the end of our existential crisis and the end of our existence. My novel, 'The 5th Wave,' explores the latter scenario, because, frankly, I believe it represents the likeliest outcome of an extraterrestrial encounter. In short, if they're out there, we better hope they never find us.

I love Eminem, I love Moby. Why can't we just be friends?

Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.

Many of Israel's Arabs, which see themselves as part of the Palestinian population, feel the pain of their brothers across the green line - a pain they feel the state of Israel is responsible for.

Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Every soil does not produce every material.

The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

I like to spend my time with my children.

I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.

I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.

No minority should climb all over the majority.

There are a lot of dedicated people out there that don't get the recognition that we get, but they're as important as the people that are sitting in the vehicle.

I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.

If my idea was just to maintain a certain lifestyle, there would be no need to get a Ph.D. But I do care very deeply about the idea side as well.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.