Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.

Having confidence is so important, because how you see yourself, is how others will see you too.

You know, I'm a curvy woman and I just want to be comfortable with that.

A little party never killed nobody.

Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.

The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.

I'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!

With all the negativity in the world, I want to do something positive.

I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!

Once we start writing with a pen, we are not allowed to erase our mistakes, we are forced to deal with it.

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist.

I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.

Actors never discuss future plans.

Librarians save lives by handing the right book at the right time to a kid in need.

The knowledge of your destiny is available to you, well before it actually happens, as a message streaming continuously from your heart to your brain, written in the language of longing.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.