There are no mistakes in life, and it's not about anybody being able to judge you.

It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?

Before we can work on the problems, we have to fix our souls. Our souls are broken in this nation.

Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we're doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change

I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.

Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.

My daughters are the heart of my heart and the center of my world

For the First Time in My Adult Lifetime, I'm Really Proud of My Country

When my mother and my grandmother died three months apart, I knew my world was over.

I tried to be strong in the face of obstacles.

Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

Darlin', you are all female but not in the least little bit weak.

Purr more, hiss less

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.

I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth.

Mere physical growing up, mere mastery of the bare necessities of subsistence will not suffice to reproduce the life of the group. Deliberate effort and the taking of thoughtful pains are required.

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

When digital recording came in about '84, everything started to follow into digital. Now, you've got the best recording media in the world, but it's not very pleasing to the ear.

Now look at the crowd. We’ve got everybody here tonight: Black, white, Asian, Latinos—and guess what? President Obama says we can all stay! God Bless America!