Begging for acknowledgment, or even asking, diminishes dignity and diminishes power.

Love is the ultimate theme, but it's not just for women.

The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It's very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want.

Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

I think that my sensibilities are becoming slightly less delicate and I'm venturing out in a storytelling world.

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.