Personally, I don't do certain things. I read articles and they'll pit me against Lil' Kim like I'm going to smash them down. I never said any of that; I never said I didn't like Kim or Foxy [Brown].

I think everybody has a responsibility to themselves. If at the end of the day, you can rest and feel OK with yourself, that's fine.

There are some places where you want to get money, but it's not really about the money.

Your Monday is not going to be like Saturday; the emotions are going to be different.

I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major.

I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone.

My silence doesn't mean I don't know what goes around me, but what goes around me don't deserve my words.

Gabriel.This has to be his fault, somehow. I'm going to track him down, pluck out his angel feathers, and stuff a pillow with them.

[On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

We're just ordinary people. We don't know which way to go.

I work because I enjoy what I'm doing, and the fact that I make money at it - big money - is a fine-and-dandy side fact.

I cry for everything I abandoned and because I, too, have been left behind -- by Alex, by my mom, by time that has cut through our worlds and separated us.

The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge.

I think there are perhaps two ways in which one can begin.

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. It was always thus and always thus will be.

I was studying my 'Bold and Beautiful' script the other day, lying in a hammock, when one of my Siberian tigers walked up and grabbed it out of my hand - she wanted to play. See - teeth marks!