I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too.
I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
Don't let people disrespect you. My mom says don't open the door to the devil. Surround yourself with positive people.
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
We really try to make sure that the band writes the songs, not just one person.
It's really hard to go out knowing that you are going to be the center of attention just about anywhere you go and that it's not going to be in a positive way.
I just think when you read something that's magnetic that pulls you into it or resonates with you, whatever that may be, that's always a positive thing.
I always want to portray veterans in a positive light, and since I got into acting full time, I've made that part of my goal.
India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.
Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.
I'm positive and I smile a lot, and I'm kind of a banana, but serious work just seems to find me, so I'm not going to argue with it.
In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
At the end of the day the question comes, what are you doing for the world? You have to try to do something that's going to add something positive.
I can only do something that my sister or my daughter, if I have one, could watch and feel positive about.
When people ask me about my story, I just go through the positive stuff: the tent-pole moments, the big landmark checkpoints.
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.
Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
Maybe in past years, perhaps women didn't feel quite as comfortable with revealing themselves, and their skills and their crafts... and now we are, so we're out there, just like the guys.
Generally my feeling is that I think women are just in a universal way coming out, coming to their own more. And they have more opportunity, and basically we're equal.
Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
