I think fashion can have a very negative impact on young people who feel they have to be thin. I am not part of that trend. There is so much pressure….

We have learned nothing..

Fear is the beginning of wisdom..

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My ….

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop..

nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting h….

I let the scripts basically be my Bible..

Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing..

Asking a man if he could be trusted was like asking an unwed girl if she was a virgin. The question mattered, but the asking of it was gross insult..

It's insane. I've had girls throwing themselves at me since the hype started. Now the film's out I can't walk down the street without being pounced….

Heterosexual women who've had long-term relationships see their man fall apart. They go, "I'm giving him my whole life - I'm giving him my love, I'm ….

You can make something out of nothing..

Believe it or not, people went so far as to suggest that I might not be able to write songs anymore because now I am married. I tried to explain agai….

Knowledge is after all a non-rivalrous good.

What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here..

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..

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take..

Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.

I was never a girl who dreamed about what her wedding day would be like, but I've always dreamed about decorating my baby's nursery..

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year..

There's a reason that girls cut off all their Barbie doll's hair and dye it and do things like that. I destroyed my Barbie dolls, and I know other gi….