I'm not a role model, nor have I ever tried to be a role model. The only thing about me as a role model is I've managed to stay here and be working and survive. For 40 years.

Hate crimes are the scariest thing in the world because these people really believe what they're doing is right.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

For someone who likes tattoos, the most precious thing is bare skin.

Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. Exercise is nothing short of a miracle.

I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

Pay no attention to haters, attention is what they crave.

The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world.

I will never fit in because I was not meant to

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

A girl can wait for the right man to come along but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones.

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled, The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.("Ephemera")

Think about rethinking what you're thinking, before speaking the thought you were thinking, and cause unintended consequences for speaking what you probably shouldn't have been thinking.

It's pointless to hate anything. Just trick your conscience by pretending you like something and soon enough you will.

A platform is what defines your visibility with your audience.

My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

There are cyber threats out there, this is a dangerous world, and we have to be safe, we have to be secure no matter the cost.

The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.

It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.

I think he's going down, ... It's gonna be the 'Revenge for O.J. '