What I say now is that the way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon. People pat me on the head, and I go to myself, oh, and aren't they going to be surprised.

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.

I'm close with my parents. I have a lot of acquaintances, but my very good close friends are few I can count my very good friends on one hand. And that's how I like it to be.

I've been doing a lot of hiking, which I love

Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

I just can't eat without my sunglasses.

No, I am who I am. Im not going to change for anybody.

Whenever you move, I think you lose your history.

And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.

The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Dreams are memories. Memories are dreams. But my time with you hasn’t become a dream just yet. Because the sensation of your kisses keep me from sleep. I’m in love, God help me, I’m in love.

Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, and this terrible knowledge requires us to act differently.

I want to be left alone.

I also like poems that are haunted by a structure or a narrative, or poems that frisk flirtatiously at the boundary of sense.

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth.

My future does not depend on me but on any decision by the Togo federation.