IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES.

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

You ask me if I have a God complex? Let me tell you something — I am God.

I love when people write about something, I learn what I'm doing through the eyes of a good critic, positive or negative. It's still a learning experience.

I think of my body as a temple. Or at least a relatively well-managed Presbyterian youth center.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

I eat anything, and I'm not preoccupied with my figure. The most important [thing] is that the people accept me for my music, not for physical appearances.

Because of you, the world makes sense to me in a way it didn't before. I have a place now, with you.