It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

If I can't find a project that I'm really interested in, I'll just go back to college where I've been studying art history and French. I'm also going to study English and philosophy - the whole curriculum!

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

Music is also a part of who I am so I'm thinking about recording an album.

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

I was brought up with considerable discipline, and I was taught it wasn't proper to display certain very private emotions in public.

In a sea of people my eyes will always search for you.

I got to travel around Anbar Province, had a great group of Marines who worked for me who traveled around Anbar Province. I got to hang out with a lot of different types of Marines and soldiers and sailors.

I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.

I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.

I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

I'm committed to structural changes.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.

Get enough sleep every night. An exhausted mind is rarely productive.

The future of our nation is dependent on the future of our families.

All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps; you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

Our wishes are endless. God gives the best of the wishes.

No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.

The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?

It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.