To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They've got their heads screwed on a lot better.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

the past is only the future with the lights on.

It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.

It’s the enemy of your enemy who is your friend Sophie, not the friend of your friend.

I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

In the Miss America system talent is worth 50 percent of a contestant's points so my mom encouraged me to give it a try. And once I decided to do it, like anything else, I gave it 110 percent.

The rise and fall of Tony Montana, and what a way to go out.

I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.

Black crime rates fell more steeply than white crime rates, and now black incarceration is falling more steeply than white incarceration.

I felt like I was staring out across an ocean that I was going to have to swim from shore to shore before I could rest again.