"You know I, I just think, that ah, things have a way of working themselves out."

“I was asked whether I was trying to restore Victorian values. I said straight out I was. And I am.”

“Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.”

Source : "DIVA TALK: Catching Up With Venice Star Jennifer Damiano". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 31, 2013.

“Of course, peer pressure has a strong positive component. It provides the social cohesion that allows the very development of communal affiliation. But peer power as an extrinsic force is a lot like radiation: a little goes a long way.”

“At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.”

“Whoever sees me sees the teaching, and whoever sees the teaching sees me.”

“Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.”

“I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.”

“Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.”