Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

Understand where it is you want to go. Then picture yourself there. If you can picture yourself there, then you can be there. Bottom line.

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.

You can't admit to someone else what you're too damn afraid to admit to yourself.

Economic prosperity and quality education for our children are inexorably linked.

I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

I've done a lot of collaboration over the years, but right now I'm enjoying writing by myself and just being me again for a while.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

If you believe in it, and you believe in it hard, it is impossible to fail.