My mom has gone out of her way in her personal life. She's been with me on the road. She's had to deal with people giving her the 'that's the mom' and arguing. Just little things as a businesswoman.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

I was living in Maryland and my first week was dreadful. My first week I actually got into a fight at school

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

Even in relationships, I don't get my hopes up or anything, especially not right now because I know I'm young and I've got plenty of time later in the future.

I also have two dogs, a Chihuahua and a Yorkshire terrier, so if they like him, that's a good sign.

I like doing arts and crafts, so I would probably go to one of those fun little ceramic places and go paint some plates and do something fun like that

For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.

Love yourself for who you are. You are beautiful inside and out, and nobody can take that away from you.

I signed to Def Jam and within two months, I heard that Ja Rule was looking for someone to do a song with.

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously

God is connected to people

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

I will not walk backward in life.

Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday, they can grow up and be president of the United States.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

You have to speak your dream out loud.

The popular choice, by more than 2 million votes, is a completely qualified candidate for president.

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they should do it.

Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.