Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

I'm a big woman. I need big hair.

If you disrespect everybody that you run into, how in the world do you think everybody's supposed to respect you?

People really don't have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don't let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can't you see? You need you and I really need me.

The more beauty you see, the more beautiful you become.

If really god is there, then God created us.If really god is not there, then we created God(Our creativity).

I've always been a poor sport and a sore loser...any other behavior might encourage a repeat performance

I love going to the beach. I like just walking around South Beach, but sometimes, when you're famous, it can be a little difficult.

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.

No one should ever preach on the topic of hell without a tear in his eye.

People evolve and it's important to not stop evolving just because you've reached 'adulthood.'

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.

Football is a sport of emotions, and we have to capture that in our films.

Some of them wanted to sell me snake oil and I'm not necessarily going to dismiss all of these, as I have never found a rusty snake.