I was a straight-A student, baby!

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.

You've got to believe. Never be afraid to dream.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

I make the best pancakes you'll ever have! And I claim that title gladly. On Saturdays I make them for everybody.

The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.

We seal our fate with the choices we make.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

The Bible, Holy writings.

I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older.

It isn't enough for your heart to break because everybody's heart is broken now.

Everything I do I get criticized, but I don't care because that's the stuff I believe in and put my heart in to.

I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?

I'm not sure how paying for transgender surgery [in the military] makes our country safer.

I never talk to tabloids.

Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.