I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

The idea of licking stamps seemed great fun for me.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

Gag me with a spoon!

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

I would think: Stay close to the implants! They must know something because they keep getting asked backstage!

If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after.

I made enough money to buy a house. That's crazy, but fame proved ephemeral.

I grew up with too much freedom. You can't define yourself.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

Not many people know what their parents sound like having sex. It was noisy.

My mother tells this story that when I first went to school, I thought I was going to help the teachers. I didn't realise I was going to get educated.

I'm totally convinced I can write the perfect pop song.

My Dad was so open creatively that I was off in search of black turtleneck bathing suits with long sleeves.

I should just drive around this city and take photos of all the buildings I've been humiliated in.

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get.

I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

How strange, when your father's wearing women's clothes and platform shoes, that a pair of loafers looks incredible.

We had two rules growing up in my house: If you're going to take a shower, do it with whomever you're dating so you don't waste water; and if you buy one for yourself, buy six, because everybody's going to want one.

I peaked early. I was told I'd missed my boat.

I think I have a dark view of the world. I have to make everything funny, otherwise it all seems so sad.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

I don't want to lose my name because that's how I know myself. There is a legacy here.

I have a tree man coming to trim the jacaranda in my front garden.

Everyone has flaws. Its a matter of finding the ones you can live with.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

It's impossible to capture every single facet of someone's personality in a film.

Everyone would be healthier if they didn't eat junk food.

In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.

Look, obviously that was - created quite a firestorm, but Newsweek editors have made clear that this was a situation where, you know, a solid, well-placed source provided some information.

If I knew I would miss you so badly, I wouldn't have loved you.

The first time I ever had the opportunity to dive on the Great Barrier Reef, it was while filming 'Oceans Deadliest' with Steve Irwin. I remember just how awestruck I was by its beauty.

I love when I go back to London. I love how the girls dress there.

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

I'll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan.

I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.

Politics itself is not sacred any more.

I think you should dress nicely for airports. You're surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.

There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.

Let your love be like the misty rains coming softly but flooding the river.

I outline in some detail, but even after the outline is done I often get a new idea that is an improvement, so the outline is a living, breathing thing as well. I also re-outline when I'm two-thirds done, to be sure that there is an emotional payoff from all the plot lines and to be sure the story is as tight as it can be.