Look at all our old men in pubs. Look at all our young people on drugs.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Virtue, I grant you, is an empty boast; But shall the dignity of vice be lost?

I'm always adapting, I'm always learning, and I'm always changing.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.

Believe it or not, goals can change a game.

Let nobody speak mischief of anybody.

I'm an actress, and I am Latina.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]