I love being a beginner. It can be a terrible feeling because you're ashamed of everything you do, but it's so exciting at the same time.

Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.

You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

There were always questions about my parents; I got so fed up with that.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I thought people would ask me really personal questions because I've shown more of myself, but it's a comedy, and people understand that it's a game we play.

There's always this thing of wanting to be elsewhere.

I hope one day I will be able to be completely myself. Maybe I'll be wilder.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

I have a thing for things that last.

Then she leant over and kissed him very slowly, with infinite tenderness. As if she had had to wait an eternity to do so.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts.

The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.

Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.

Fascist political gatherings tend to encourage or at least expect a little violence around the edges, particularly against counter protesters.