"Get support and be surrounded by people who love you. Sit with the discomfort and the emotions instead of distracting yourself and numbing the pain, or it will just haunt you in another form in the future. Don't be afraid of the pain and darkness. There's information there. There's a lesson to be learned. You can use the experience as a catalyst for growth."

“If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone who can publish it or get it published. Don't send it to me. Don't show it to your spouse, or your significant other, or your parents, or somebody. They're not going to publish it.”

“When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.”

“We have a lot of young players and some veteran players who make you feel good and give you a lot of tips. They always want to make sure you're ready to play.”

“The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.”

Source : "Triumph of the common man" by John O'Mahony, www.theguardian.com. March 1, 2003.

“I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope, and she's marvelous.”

“The 'enemy' in golf is tension.”

“The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.”

Source : ChicagoPride.com interview, chicago.gopride.com. May 19, 2010.

“Trust is hard to get from actors, and for me to give to actors.”

Source : "Lee Daniels Makes it Personal". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 5, 2012.