Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

The bickering and fighting and hating that women do with each other - it's going to kill us as a race of people.

You've just got to follow your own path. You have to trust your heart and you have to listen to the warnings.

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didnt go over a cliff.

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other.

I want to give some positive messages and to empower some people.

I'd been in a vicious cycle and circle of people and couldn't see my way out. So I picked myself up one day about 15 years ago and moved where I didn't know anyone.

I'm a woman and I'm a backbone...everybody needs one.

If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.

The distinction of one person's character can be illustrated bythis word : attitude

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

Doubt is a necessity of the mind faith of the heart.

It doesnt matter about money and fame and whatever. I really dont care about that. My thing is, Im happy that Im able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

Apparently, in the eyes of the law, my admiration of Justin Bieber is creepy.

In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.

I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century.