Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

When youre a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it cant last forever.

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

Solitude is the spirituality of the soul.

There is no treasure like the human heart.

Look for her not in the valleys below, nor in the temple rooms. For she has gone, gone into the high passes, far beyond this dying moon.

If anyone thinks interracial "anything" is a big deal, they're probably inbred.

What am I doing here? The Southern Star has vanished, a Cataclyst is calling the moon out of time at the mythical Great Barrier, and you're asking what I'm doing here? Are you serious?

Know that I'm chosen, one of the few/Staying on top - at least, one up on you

But who could bear to know which stars were already dead, she thought, blinking up at the night sky; could anybody stand to know that they all were?

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long.