The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

Love overcomes hate. Love has no color. Love has no orientation. All is love.

Be who you want to be - be free in your own skin, be liberated and feel beautiful, and do what you want to do without judgement

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

If something doesn't look right, throw some glitter on it.

Being who you are is a lot easier than faking it.

The best way to be loved, is to love yourself.

If sexy scares you, don't listen to my music.

I'm a freak in the fondest way possible.

Life is all about taking risk to get what you want.

I just talk a lot, that's the problem.

Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in future.

Confusion is a weapon that is used by others to gain a temporary objective or advantage.

Nothing really belongs to us but time which even he has who has nothing else.

The daily life is so wearisome; yet duty lies that way.

Fonda and Gary Cooper had the best sense of timing of all the actors I knew.

A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

In a close-up, the audience is only inches away, and your face becomes the stage.

The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So old with their beauty are-- Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.