I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Clay can be dirt in the wrong hands, but clay can be art in the right hands.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

If a person can be said to have the wrong attitude, there is no need to pay attention to his arguments.

I hope 'The Voice' has a fifteen-year run, don't get me wrong. But I come from nothing, and maybe it's the Irish in me, but my attitude is always like, 'They'll figure me out soon.'

I guess a psychiatrist would say there's some good to the venting process, but it does also promote an attitude of saying, 'Hey there's nothing wrong with being filled with hate; there's so much of it around.' I don't like that.