There's more pressure to be famous for being yourself than if you're being a character.

Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.

If I don't like something that's going on in my life, I change it. And I don't sit and complain about it for a year.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

Embrace your curves and who you are. I feel proud if young girls look up to me and say, "I'm curvy, and I'm proud of it now".

I'm not trying to influence anyone else; I'm not saying, "Do what I do." I think it's a little pretentious to say, "I'm a role model"; I would never say that, and I don't think of myself that way.

I love when people underestimate me and then become pleasantly surprised.

It's time to recognise the Armenian Genocide.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

Don't fear the unexpecred or you'll be locked in time.

Oh thee! Lets ignite the fire of love

Don’t worry

What do we know of our mothers? I thought I knew her. But I'd seen her as a child sees a good mother--pure, transparent, incapable of deception.

I never knew how soothing trees are - many trees and patches of open sunlight and tree presences it is almost like having another being.

Once I became a professional, maybe 19 or 20, I really started to try to figure out who I was, as a woman and as an individual.

What problems?" "Well for starters.. you're an evil duck killer.

I think it's good for people to see the positive beauty that can flower from the deepest grieving.

Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.