“My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven’t found the right one yet.”

The degradation of our environment is undeniably a direct result of our lack of regard, lack of accountability, and lack of responsibility.

My love for animals started before I can remember.

I have friends come over and we read plays out loud and I make paintings and I just do things all the time just so I don’t ever feel like I’m sitting around.

I’ve done a lot of independent travelling, which hasn’t been the best career choice, but it’s been a really great life choice.

I think we are all overcoming tiny obstacles every second of every day even if that means just a small shift in perspective.

Animals don’t have a voice, so I think it is our job to give them one.

I enjoy feeling physically strong, so maybe I’d like to be able to lift a building and launch it at someone.

What we do to animals, we do to ourselves.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I think it’s time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet.

We have such an amazing future ahead of us.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession – I can’t really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

Reusing and recycling our materials is the most important thing we can do.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

Jackson [Rathbone] is the most artsy, creative and, I think, the most talented.

I don’t want any special powers. I’m powerless. I wouldn’t want to see into the future, I wouldn’t want to know what anyone was thinking, ever! And I don’t want to relive my past.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense.

I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old.

When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen.

Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.

I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi’s apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense.

The Muslim world is deeply hurt by the campaign of violence initiated against our Palestinian brothers.

The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.