When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.

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.

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practitioner diagnosed as imagination

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.

I think -- tide turning -- see, as I remember -- I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of -- it's easy to see a tide turn -- did I say those words?

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent.

It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes.

Richard got married to a figure skater, and he bought her a dishwasher and a coffee percolator.

An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.