Sometimes you do have to bank on yourself. You do have to believe in your ideas enough to really get out there and fight for it despite what people think of some young kids from the hood.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I wish you a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

If loving the written word is wrong...I don't want to be right!

Most of the people in my family were pretty funny. Everyone had a good sense of humor. I came to California right after college, wanting to be a musician.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Basically I'm always looking for things. Any good photographer should always be looking for something, you know.

You're breaking out of character, again.

Our public schools began as ministries of the church; now it is time to return them to the Lord.

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.

In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks.