The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.

If I can't change the people around me, I change the people around me.

I came from a mother and father who always made me secure in my beliefs, and that's where the love came from.

Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.

Knowledge, wisdom, and understanding don't come out of the microwave. You got to keep moving forward because the evil doesn't sleep.

It's weak to speak and blame somebody else ...When you destroy yourself.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

Our freedom of speech is freedom or death, We got to fight the powers that be!

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

The best way to boycott is to build your own

Your mind is your tram

I want to stand on the belief that great things are the product of ordinary people who are made great when they stand.

Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

I'm the lady next door when I'm not on stage.

Fashion has to be about what is.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

What evil does first in the world, maybe, is distract us from our pursuit of goodness.

Calmness is a huge gift. And once you master it, you will be able to respond in a useful way to every difficult situation that decides to walk into your heart.

Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five.

If you are at odds with the director, neither one of you is going to get anywhere. You really do have to be able to make both of you happy.