Most of the people I know in show business don't need anybody pushing them at all. They're extremely aggressive.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

If I have to, I can do anything.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.

Idols aren't stone statues. They are thoughts, desires, and longings that we worship in the place of the true God

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

We have instant pudding, instant photos, instant coffee—but there are no instant adults.

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects.

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me.

Death is the end of a stage, not the end of the journey. The road stretches on beyond our comprehension.

Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

For me 'Thank You'. This word has a very deep meaning.