When I write I consider it a rhyme. In the studio I consider it laying down vocals. Onstage, I'm entertaining; I don't even think about it.

You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.

All I ever wanted, all I ever needed was a father.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

We're going to raise a lot of money for cancer awareness, give some to the American Cancer Society and hopefully make a big difference.

She had a big ole booty, I was doing my duty.

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.

Sometimes you've just got to grab an apple - or grapes, or strawberries. Something that's healthy but maybe a little bit more adventurous, if you can see fruit as adventurous.

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.

Like your booty don't stink.

Take the time every day to teach and train yourself how to ask empowering questions. Those who ask the right questions change the world.

In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

It is not a word too much to say that the New Testament abounds with errors.

A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.

I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.

Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.

I'll be dead by the time I'm forty.

Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.

My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach