Boys don't really like big nerdy glasses. Not so much.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.

If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.

I think, like many women, I was judgmental toward women as they aged.

I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

I love being a woman and I love being feminine.

We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.

You choose the life you want for yourself, and then you just shut up and go about it. That's how I've lived my life.

What I know in my heart is that women and girls on the ground are powerful and that they are leaders.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

You need to be focused on what the Lord has entrusted in you

As long as I'm still able to have a hit on the radio and sell a few albums and some tickets, I don't see that it would be worth retiring.

Inequality is going to be a big issue, but competence is going to be the biggest issue. [People] want to see somebody that's super-competent and that's me.

That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

All progress and growth is a matter of change, but change must be growth within our social and government concepts if it should not destroy them.

You ought to know that October is the first Spring month.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Balancing your ego is the most important thing, because success fuels ego - and that is not easy sometimes. When you're in the public eye, people see that as success and it's just not.

The mind conscious of innocence despises false reports: but we are a set always ready to believe a scandal.