Quotes

I remember when I was prosecutor we had truancy and curfew issues and we made a refrigerator magnet, and that was hot with parents. They loved putting it up on the wall and saying, you know, if you don't follow these rules, you could get prosecuted.

I love representing Minnesota in the Senate.

I love the State Fair. It's an event that really brings the urban and the rural Minnesotans together. Rural people get a chance to mix with the urban folk and see what the cities have to offer, and urban people get to remember where their food comes from and who produces it for them.

I have a combination of self-love and self-loathing, just like most people.

It's hard to get those roles that allow you to show everything and feel like you're really being used and exhausted and spent, which I think is what actors really love: We want to be tired.

You always hear actors say, 'Theater is my first love,' and it is. It's a time when you really get to do what you do, and there's not a lot of waiting around and interruption and not a lot of money involved - sometimes money really clouds the waters of creativity.

I love the idea that we're going to be genderless and boundaryless in the future.

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.

I love tiny, plastic realistic food magnets. I don't know why. They're hilarious.

I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

I love the creative process. That's always been the closest thing to my heart, creating something.

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love.

I really do listen to all types of music, not only rock, but everything from good pop music - which is usually older pop music - to R&B and indie rock. I love indie rock more than a lot of the commercial stuff that you'd expect.

I love folk; that's a big part of my background.

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

I love contrast in music. Being inspired by classical, actually - in high school especially - classical and metal both, I remember having this cool realization that they are really similar. It's just different instrumentation.

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

I loved Jake Gyllenhaal. He's the most beautiful thing ever.

When I was 11 I went to New York with my mum, dad and sister. I felt like I was on a movie set the whole time and loved being over there on Independence Day.

One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.

But I absolutely love New York. Every time I go there, I still get excited. When you come over the bridge and you're coming towards Manhattan, I still get goose bumps every time.

I love going out and touring, and maybe people understand that it's not about making a quick buck. Maybe that translates.

I love 'Top Gear'. It's my favorite show.