I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I've learned to love my brown eyes.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

I want people to know that I'm a force to be reckoned with.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

One tip is to try and give your hair some time to relax. Don't over wash or over dry it.

I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

I think that sexism existents everywhere.

I like people who don't take themselves too seriously.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

I eat at In-N-Out Burger every chance I get.

Maybe that's why I don't like religion because the first introduction to it was, you don't get to do that thing you just discovered that you really enjoy.

It's patriarchal society that has freed me as a woman.

Summoned or not, the god will come.

As we reach out to God, we get another source of strength.

I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.

Follow your dreams.No matter what

I see myself as a storyteller, I don't mind if the story is fact or fiction, if it's a good story I'd like to tell it.

Stories have the power to create social change and inspire community.