My friends have always told me that rock stardom was wasted on me.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Be strong, believe in who you are; be strong, believe in what you feel.

It was tough being a single mom. It was tough being in a divorce with children. Very, very hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

The sign says do not enter, no trespassing allowed. With visions of redemption I walk against the crowd.

We are getting older, and we are getting wiser, and we are getting freer. And when you get the wisdom and the truth, then you get the freedom and you get power, and then look out. Look out.

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

When you draw a line in the sand, be careful it is not low tide.

Without a vision to guide our path, and without ambition that knows no limits, we can never build a bright future for generations to come.

If the grass is greener in the other fellow's yard- let him worry about cutting it.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

May I die like a dog rather than hasten the ripening of a sentence by a single second!

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

Never give up! There's always hope because there's always help