At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

Baby you're a firework, come on, let your colors burst!!

If you can believe in something great, then you can achieve something great.

Don't care what people gonna think of you, do what you wanna do and seek just your happiness.

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

I love the Seahawks because of Russell [Wilson] and I think that I'm going to probably go for them!

I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!

If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.

My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.

My work is like a dialogue between me and unseen powers, like alchemy.

I don't recall being excited about a new rapper, ever.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

What you did in the past is how you got to today. What you do today is how you will get to the future.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war.

Give your main clause a little space. Prose is not like boxing; the skilled writer deliberately telegraphs his punch, knowing that the reader wants to take the message directly on the chin.