The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

Men always laugh whenever a woman says she has political skill. But it's not such a difficult thing to master.

They never raised a statue to a critic.

People keep saying how amazing it is having a female lead, and I just sort of feel, 'Well, of course!'

To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

My skating is a very emotional thing that comes from the heart, never doing it for the medal.

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.

There can only be one Queen Bey.