Quotes

There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

I love photography. And I just eat it up. I feel like I'm an encyclopedia, you know, inside.

I love to make music and stay grounded.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

I would love to meet a dodo.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.

I have a reputation for being cold and aloof, but I'm so not that woman. I'm passionate. I love my girls, being with my girlfriends, getting involved with issues that affect other women and children who are suffering.

I sang a lot as a little girl and entered competitions. I loved singing in choirs, but it was as I got older that I really found my voice.

If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

I did a web series years ago where I helped write a kind of a spoof called 'Young Love.'

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

Dixie Carter was a goddess. The kind of wife and mother that every mother hopes their daughter will become and the kind of friend that is absolutely irreplaceable. She loved fiercely and was adored in return.

I love series television because it's so much fun to have that much opportunity to paint the character.

I sure do love theater. I mean, that's where I started. I am actually sort of shy, but something happens when the audience comes in. It's something nice for me. It terrifies me, but I'm able to do it.

I knew I'd love being a mom, but it's so much cooler than I even thought it would be.

I definitely love to work, and I'm loving being a mommy, so I'd like to try to balance both.

When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you've ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.

I love experimenting, playing characters that are not even remotely connected to my personality.

It is that kind of space, that little space of longing, whether it is in something like romantic love, or whether it's in something like divine love. You know, that kind of search for something that's not quite in your grasp. It's a very powerful place to explore as an artist, because it's not necessarily sad.

On 'Love Letters', I focused exclusively on songs with lyrics, creating a collection of songs that directly address heartbreak and its ensuing emotions in a way that instrumental music can only hint at.