Quotes

I love the idea of constantly altering yourself.

I broke up with my first girlfriend because I was out of love. I was crushing so hard on her for a whole year, and I finally I got to be with her, and the interest vanished. I'm a terrible person. I was 17, and she was in my class.

When you dance, you own everything you have. You are really in your own body. You do it with your muscles and your bones and your weight and your height - it's how to love yourself by moving.

I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.

I love Lou Reed because his voice sounds like your inner conscience.

I'm in love with artists that are really difficult to cover or to copy. You can only try to copy them, but you will never succeed because it's intertwined with really personal references and really personal ways to exist on stage. They are really strong individuals, and are writing their own songs and know where they want to go.

I love sensual women like Beyonce who are very empowering and sexy at the same time, but if it's not what you want to do then you have to say no.

In theater, what I loved were wordless plays and working in silence.

I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!

I love people that are question marks. I love people that don't have answers and are just trying to cope with it. I love people that just don't tick boxes. There is a grace in them I can't really find elsewhere.

Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity.

I've always been in love with Howard McGillen's voice, ever since I got wind of him.

Family transcends the flesh. You don't love someone because they look like you, you love their spirit; it's the soul connection.

You can still love your job and feel guilty. You can still love your child and feel guilty. There's a lot of grey in that. It's about being conscious when you are spending time with your kids, being with them in the moment.

I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.

I live on the beautiful Northern California coast. I have always loved hiking, whale watching and being outdoors.

I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.

We all leave personal legacies for the people we know and love.

I have always been free with my love - it is my nature. I am easily captivated by men and they have always been attracted to me.

You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that ego business is nonsense compared to that.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

Markets love volatility.

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.

Carol Burnett probably had the biggest influence on me as kid. Although I was very young and watched her a lot in reruns, I was mesmerized by the way she transformed, by her physical comedy and the rolling laughter from the live studio audience. I loved her most as Scarlett O'Hara and her well known Cleaning Lady character.

I love Neil Patrick Harris. I've always been a big fan of his - he was my first TV crush.