I am really OK with the way I look. It's fine. All this is transient. I mean, it's really, you know, it changes with time, and that's the external.
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the people are very mean.
I think that celebrities should never underestimate their power. I mean just to draw attention, because then people get involved on a personal level.
Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.
Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.
I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
My family absolutely comes first, and I don't mean that in a Pollyanna way. It's the focus of my life because it's what makes me happy.
You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.
Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you through life.
If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.
As a consequence while we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, and clothes to wear to school we were constantly conscious of being of modest means.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?
Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.
Well, I came the second year. I mean I just fit right in. They wrote a great person and I'm so lucky that I got to be part of the family.
I mean I love my family very much, but there is a difference when you're reuniting with your family outside of your hometown and reuniting in the family home.
I really try hard not to work, not to engage, because I know what that means. What hard work it is; it takes me away from my family.
Stress means something different if it is the result of rewarding work rather than struggling to keep the family out of debt.
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
