My only job is to be happy. So for everybody that cares about me and is not trying to be all up in a celebrity's business, just know that I'm happy. My son is happy. We enjoy our lives.

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.

Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming.

Find new treasures in yourself. Love doesn't die. Love is unyielding. It's going to come back. The more you love and appreciate yourself, the more prepared you are when the real thing shows up.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

Saturday Night Live is a show that I think I could have a lot of fun on, just being different characters and maybe singing, too.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

Just because something awful happens to someone else, it doesn't mean the issues in your life should take any less importance.

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'

Any pianist and singer/songwriter would say "Carnegie Hall." It's such a legendary place. I'd love to play at Carnegie Hall. That's definitely dream of mine.

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

There's something ugly about the flawless.

Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs", searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.