On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

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.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

My mind becomes tired, and perhaps some of yours do. If so, go and exercise your bodies.

I don't let go of concepts -I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love.

... mathematics is the science of skillful operations with concepts and rules invented just for this purpose.

Home is where my horse is.

Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name. Dekka- Yeah sure, me and Beyonce

How does one make a movie about decadence these days? Now that we're allowed to do it, it's too late.