As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

When I was growing up, Green Day had just come out.

You don't even have to leave your house: you do your work from your house; you can order anything you want from your house; you don't have to leave your chair. Everything's been designed so that you never leave your computer chair.

Green Day was more of the influence than Blink.

The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.

Fairness is not the end result, it's the opportunity. And everybody in America today has the opportunity to get ahead.

Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective.

No matter how you feel... get up, dress up, show up and Never Give Up!

We take the suggestions people give us and build the best reality we can for them.

I answer every single e-mail that comes in myself.

I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

Just keep stirring the pot you never know what will come up.

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.

I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

It is clear I was never the Pretty Girl. I had my two front teeth knocked out when I was 10 and didn't fix them until I was 19. I have a crooked smile and a nose that looks like it's been broken 12 times but never has been. My nose was always red, so people called me Rudolph. My whole face is off-center.

Anytime you deny the acknowledgement of God you are undermining the entire basis for which our country exists.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

I come from a culture where you don't divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on film.

I know what it's like to be famous. It's good money and it's great fun. A real kick in the pants. People wave at you and smile at you. You get great tables in restaurants. They send you gifts - beautiful clothes and cars.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

To me, it remains incomprehensible that a people who can design the Porsche 911 and sleek, white ice trains, who created the Bauhaus and speak at least three languages at birth, want to own twee Christmas figurines painted in gaudy colours, dress up in Bavarian lederhosen, and eat Haribo gummy bears.

As a writer, you aren't anybody until you become somebody.

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

Prince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.