Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

Be like snow - cold, but beautiful.

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud.

I am nostalgic of an era I never knew.

What other people think of me is none of my business. Sometimes, it hurts my feelings, but I have to just keep going.

No matter how many people give me advice, I am going to do what my heart tells me to do

Being brave means knowing that when you fail, you don't fail forever.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?

Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean.

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

What's the use of the wind if it won't take you away on it?

Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Sometimes I'm thinkin' I'm Too high to fall Other times I'm thinkin' I'm So low I don't know If I can come up at all

Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

I'm the depresso guy on holidays.

The terrible beast, that no one may understand, Came to my side, and put down his head in love.

I come from an ordinary family - my dad is a carpenter, a roof-maker - and we've always loved racing together.