I want to see 10 female rappers getting regular rotation. It can't be all about a man's opinion.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Those who say traveling is expensive, are just ill-informed.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, Which nobly, beyond death, shall crown the end.

If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it.