Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.

There's a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.

Anyone's happier when they're not being verbally abused all day long.

No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.

Really good things take time to grow. Foundation is not built over night.

First things first, I'm da realest.

Pledge allegiance to the struggle.

Once you go great, you never go good..You never go back, even if you could.

I'd known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed.

For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.

You're nervous around me. I don't bite." He turned his head and swept a gaze over her that went from head to toe and back again. "Unless you like that sort of thing.

You don’t need to marry a man with millions. You only need to be your exquisite self.

Aren't we most aware of our animal natures when love or hunger or hatred burns through reason and encourages us to do exactly what we desire to do, with frequently tragic results?

I'm the kind of person who wants to present my most honest, authentic self to the world, so I hide backstage and rehearse honest and authentic lines until the curtain opens.

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

Identity is the continuity in a personality that survives through various vicissitudes, through change.

There are remedies for all things but death.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.

If you only knew who you really are, you'd be starstruck

Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know, Where in the purlieus of this forest stands A sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?