“I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage.”

I can single handedly dispel any ideas that sexuality is acquired. Trust me, you’re born with it.

Doing something that you love regardless when it’s a blockbuster movie or you’re writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out.

Take control over your skin by using an acne treatment system that actually works: Proactiv+.

People always – when you rise, whenever you’re getting to a point where you’re a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren’t going to like you.

I’ve got the moves like Jagger.

That’s not true. I did not have sexual intercourse with Lindsay Lohan. … A lot of people probably did, I don’t know, [but I did not].

Taylor Swift is super charming. Damn you Swift.

Men are not as sophisticated as women. They’re not as mature as women. They’re not as connected with their emotions as women…

I’m fiercely independent, but I’m also terrified of being alone.

A lot of times people will think, ‘I’m strong, I’m in shape; why can’t I do this pose?’ But that’s not the point.

Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.

Acne may be good at destroying self-confidence, but Proactiv+ is good at destroying acne.

I’d rather be loud and misunderstood than quiet and bored

I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.

It’s sweet that I don’t have to do my laundry.

The Voice’ is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.

Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols, for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.

Singing for stage, if you don’t hear yourself, that’s when you push, and that’s when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.

I don’t think I write differently when I’m writing a screenplay, as opposed to a stage play or a teleplay. Maybe if I were in a film class and there was time to think about it, we could point out differences.

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

Passions are merely ideas in their initial stage.

Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.