Distinctly American poetry is usually written in the context of one's geographic landscape, sometimes out of one's cultural myths, and often with reference to gender and race or ethnic origins.

I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong. Your tongue moves, and the Arabic language is so beautiful.

Sometimes a new coach can find it not easy.

When someone gives you a compliment, believe them.

In the hierarchy of instruments, if you're a harpist, you're considered someone with a brain much more than if you're a singer.

When Messi plays the ball, everybody expects many things from him. Sometimes it's too much because we have to let Messi breathe a bit.

There's something liberating about watching someone not following the rules.

I can't run my career based on someone else's ideology.

What you want to do in a film is encapsulate the characters and the stories into one focused, coherent two-hour time block, and that's sometimes hard to do especially when you have a group as varied and distinctive as the 'X-Men' are.

It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.

My mother was a passionate, complicated, sometimes fierce woman.

I'm not going to be some kind of PC, tree-hugger.

I kind of have to bite my tongue sometimes with my lyrics.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it there with beautiful clarity.

I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.

I think obviously there is some kind of life form somewhere else. Whether it looks like the creature in 'Alien Autopsy,' I'm not sure.

This is how you start to get respect: by offering something that you have.

Sometimes I Google myself just to see what people are saying. But we all do that. If someone tells you that they don't, then they are lying.

I want to do a jean line for boys and girls that are sometimes too skinny to fit into jeans, or sometimes a little bit too husky to fit into some jeans.

I don't want to raise someone who feels entitled.