All I wanted was you. I tore down my wall for you. Now it's been rebuilt.

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

DNA predisposes a certain behavior, but if your environment doesn't support it, then that behavior won't manifest. When people don't have opportunity, they have to create their own opportunities

Some crazy man came up to me and started screaming at me about how he hated Allah, and before I could tell him that my family was part of the Catholic Church in India, he knifed me.

A woman of European heritage sporting a preacher's collar had the opposite effect of a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. She used her privilege and the favored religion to look like a golden child.

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.

Thoughts are strange creatures. They lead you from one thing to another. Sometimes you don’t know how you got from one to the next.

Forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the fumes of human rage, with these out hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.

My not-so-fun traits are that I get very impatient and I can be really stubborn.

Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day.

Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.

I cannot be exacting because I respect myself.

I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost.

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.

You can see a lot just by observing.