If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

I've always been into looking different.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

Everyone thinks their mom is a superhero, and l feel like I want to be just like my mom. A superhero. She’s a very strong lady.

Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn’t leave a hangover.

In an IT lead world, incumbents generally win because they have the existing relationship with the IT organization.

I do feel that in modern society that still is the best way to survive. Whatever it is, just keep doing something, because complete stillness or inactivity is more like death than death.

[George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.

The paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.

Per capita availability of good, potable water is diminishing in all developed and developing countries.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

He mighta spent a couple years under the arena training young wrestlers.

Everything we're singing about is true, and even when you take away all the glitz, it's still true in the darkest, ugliest and most hopeless places.