I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

In being able to learn from his mistakes and grow, Eisenhower "was transformed from a mere person into a personage.

To be happy, learn to forget and forgive.

It’s like my whole life my left ring finger has been lacking something, and finally it feels complete.

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership.

No one sees life like you do, because you are no one. You change constantly, like the light outside the window.

I don't want to do rap that makes people feel bad.

A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes.

When I cry - when I let myself cry - that's who I cry for. I don't cry for myself. I cry for the Cassie that's gone. And I wonder what that Cassie would think of me. The Cassie who kills.

Know that the thing that is easiest to do is rarely the thing that is best to do.