I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

A great day for me is not getting out of bed. I like to see how many snacks I can eat..and how many really bad TV shows I can watch

If there are no great teachers, how can we expect a great future?

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer.

Society tends to stick labels on everything and everyone. The label that is given to you will stick with you for a lifetime.

The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

It takes two people to make a friendship work

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

If we think of our brains as a map, those early roads are like grooves, tram tracks, easy to fall into.

People are losing the capacity to listen to words or follow ideas.

People's wardrobes in history are something that society and culture imposed. But sexuality is not about the way you dress.