I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.

I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.

Not becoming 'something' scares me the most. I just want to be remembered for something great.

The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -they're lucky, they can't die again.

Our heads will happen cold when this is found.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.

I'm frugal. I've always been this way. When I was young, my mom would give me my allowance, and I'd peel off a little each week and have some to spare.

It's funny --- sometimes the strongest individuals feel the worst when events are out of their control, and they can't really be there for the people they love. I've felt it myself.

The acting was first. As a teenager I was an actress; and then I came back as a singer.

Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling

Love is like smiling, it never fades and is contagious.

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.