Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!

Demand no more out of your partner than what you are willing to give yourself.

I don't know how people live without coffee, I really don't.

When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.

I did go through a period where I was on unemployment. That was my low point: Martha Quinn on line at unemployment, hoping nobody will recognize her.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

The things that trouble our spirits are within us already. In meditation, we must face them, accept them, and set them aside one by one.

I came to the conclusion that unless you are ruled properly, you cannot move forward. Everything else is second. Everything.

I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films.

Rather than saying that the commissioner is hired by the owners and therefore is subservient to them, you have to look at whether or not the players are getting a fair shake.

We often read the Bible as if it were fundamentally about us: our improvement, our life, our triumph, our victory, our faith, our holiness, our godliness.

I get on Twitter, one of my routines during the day, if I'm home is, I wake up, get a cup of coffee, turn on the Weather Channel and I'll look at what people are saying to me on Twitter on my phone.

Promises may fit the friends but non performance will turn them into enemies.

I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed.

I like to be comfortable. And I think men tend to dress more comfortably than ladies. They can just put on a pair of jeans and a sweatshirt, and I like doing that. Comfort first.

It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the world.

I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.

There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has our best interests at heart. Sometimes, it's hard to separate manager mode from mom mode. I think as our manager, my mom will get more emotional about situations than she would if she was just our manager.

I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.

I'll cough up the bitter truth right now, at the risk of losing my Feminism Club Decoder Ring: I didn't go see 'Inside Out' for Amy Poehler, though she's terrific. I went to see my dark prince, Lewis Black.

I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.

The trouble is that people are all too ready to jump to conclusions about anybody who they think looks a bit strange. They think you must be mentally subnormal.

I am very insecure about my looks, and I always have been because of being mixed race.

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

I want to push myself.

We have lots of students graduating from our high schools, and you import the labor, then we're not giving that opportunity to our own folks.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

You lose a lot of time hating people.