I grew up in the dance school my mother owned, and I see everything in body shapes, everything visual.

I'm not going to say I'll never rock with a band, because I'm too much of a fan of the aesthetic of a great band. But a girl group? Not again.

I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.

I've only covered a few songs because I feel that if you're not going to go beyond the original artist in some way, then don't disrespect what they created.

I've always been an outsider kid. But I had always wanted to be in a group - growing up, I loved bands like the Cranberries and K's Choice.

I've learned that you only become as creative as you possibly can by staying independent.

I always thought music was open to all things.

We get discouraged sometimes when people look at surface only and neglect the message.

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power wise by his wisdom happy by his happiness.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

I'm twice as funny, I'm twice as smart, I'm twice as whatever when I'm around other people that challenge me.

There are always gonna be people that are gonna be offended about something. This will never end.

Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.

Okinawa, one of the longest-lived and healthiest populations in the world, practice a principle they call hara hachi bu: Eat until you are 80 percent full.

It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

There is nothing more productive of problems than a really good solution.

Barack Obama doesn't think this country should be number one. If it were number 35 it'd be fine with him.