When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.

The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you can come home and be with your family.

What you want in a romantic comedy, is to have two people that you want to see together and how do they overcome the obstacles that are in the way for that to happen.

And, sure, if you have a political point of view, you have every right to share it. But you have to be careful not to get too self-important. You have to find the balance between being entertaining and being preachy.

I base all my characters on hair.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

A wedding is like a funeral, but with musicians.