When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty - they were coming from a universal and personal place.

I really hope my peers appreciate and respect what I'm doing.

Shania Twain

When you're through changing, you're through.

Bruce Barton

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Aristotle

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

Seth Rogen

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

Blaise Pascal

Wonderful art can spring from misery,I'm the last person to deny that.I'd go even further:the best works of art of all time are probably stemmed from the deep human sorrow or hellish frustration,the death of a loved one or a divorce and yes:jealousy.Heartache and impotence as the man-spring for making the unverifiable verifiable and for giving it face.How romantic,beautiful and especially useful pain and misery can be.

Esther Verhoef

Among twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the eye of the blackbird.

Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways o

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Edmund Waller

I had never seen much of Star Trek, or any other science fiction, before I was cast. But Seven's wonderful.

Jeri Ryan

I live a bourgeois life.

Mark Ruffalo

I think people often confuse success with fame and stardom.

Brenda Blethyn

A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.

Jean Rostand