There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

I feel more confident if my makeup looks good.

How long will I love you? As long as stars are above you, And longer if I may

One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

I feel like my figure is a challenge because I'm quite flat chested but I've got a booty so I've got to look for the right things.

I take inspiration from everything around me, also relationships and friends. And the inside of my crazy head.

I believe in the moment of things and fate and things happening for a reason, so I write things down and I trust it.

My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.

Even if a relationship doesn't work out, you can always take something positive from something negative. You never know what's around the corner.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

Apparently I'm introspective... levelheaded... but at the same time, absolutely insane.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

But life is not a legend or a story. Reality is far more precious than a story.

When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

He defined me first, as parents do. Those early characterizations can become the shimmering self-image we embrace or the limited, stifling perception we rail against for a lifetime.

I've always learned when you win a game, no matter what the stats look like, you have to enjoy the victories because they are hard to come by.

Habit-forming products alleviate users' pain by relieving a pronounced itch.

When people know they are created with a purpose, and not here by accident, it is life-changing.