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I have no problem with the people who work hard to get success. But I think people are very jealous about success. I work very hard and they don't appreciate that.

My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad.

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

I was just always the girl that people would come and talk to about their problems, and I still am.

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.

Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

I have a good brain on me, but I've never really used it when it came to making decisions about love, which has been a blessing and a curse.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.