And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

You cannot live your life to please others. The choice must be yours.

Whatever you are made of, be the best of that.

A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'for a man you're kind of ignorant'.

I have no aspirations of world domination through the pop charts. None at all.

I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.

I think that people had this idea that I sat at home and sucked on lollipops and ate cotton candy while I watched cartoons - wearing a tiara.

Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.

But you have to remember in life that there's a positive to every negative and a negative to every positive.

Your face needs to have character if you're an actor - otherwise you're just a face.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

I believe that for every illness or ailment known to man, that God has a plant out here that will heal it. We just need to keep discovering the properties for natural healing.

In painting as in prose, a good eye is not enough to tell you whether what you see is real or fake.

Whatever come we have to meet it.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Being disabled doesn't have to be a disadvantage.

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.

My major influence was my ten years older sister.

There's nothing sentimental about a machine, and: A poem is a small (or large) machine made of words.