Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

I'm in this business because I despise honest labor.

Talent is being able to please people.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Education does loads of things for girls that won't surprise you at all - it provides self-esteem, teaches important life skills, and offers the kinds of choices a good education can give anyone.

I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.

There is a reason you keep hearing about the power of educating girls in the developing world. It's a reason so simple that you will probably view it with suspicion, as I once did. It's this: educating girls works. Really works.