"When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time."

"I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back."

"If you have issues with family, friends, and people at work, try and solve these issues head on so you can move on and concentrate on having the life you want."

"I know a lot of celebrities who are perfectly happy to put their name to something and then leave it at that because the money is good, but I need to have complete control over how something is going to look if my name is going to be attached to it."

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"I don't think I'm a great songwriter, but I think I've learned a lot about it, and I don't think there's any one way to do it. I don't think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens."

"All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talents."

"It is a quiet truth that to question with sincerity is the first step toward dismantling dogma — an essential principle for the reflective life."