We are all just a work in progress.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

Approaching a police car is a very dangerous activity to engage in.

Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.

A l'intérieur de ce corps vivait l'âme d'une intellectuelle et poète dont personne n'avait le soupçon. Within this body lived the soul of an intellectual and poet, which nobody had suspected.

Never humiliate anyone.

I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.

We need to strengthen our analytic capacity in Washington, we need to centralize the anti-terrorism effort

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Pickle jars are just pickle jars, and pickles are just pickles.

I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.