My husband really loves the red [lipstick], so I keep the red because I want to keep the husband.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. ... The losses piled up.

Men who cannot be silent will not say anything when they talk.

A woman is human, obviously, but she represents a slightly different kind of humanity.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

The unity in diversity of the United States is one of the country's greatest strengths.

We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Energie is the operation, efflux or activity of any being: as the light of the Sunne is the energie of the Sunne, and every phantasm of the soul is the energie of the soul.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

I am a stereotype. I am an effeminate man.

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.