I've always loved Jennifer Lopez, and I think, as an entertainer, she is a great example of a strong woman that is also very levelheaded and cool and produces her own content.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

Love yourself for who you are. You are beautiful inside and out, and nobody can take that away from you.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously

Of course I'm jealous. I thought I was going to get to punch him. That isn't the point.

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.

There's an old maxim that says, 'Things that work persist,' which is why there's still Cobol floating around.

There is no such thing as one Islam. The Koran is ambiguous and Islam is not a monolithic entity.