You should never need a guy to make you feel complete.

You go to new places and it opens your eyes to different things you haven't seen before. Everything from colors, to silhouettes, to patterns - it just comes from everywhere.

I almost exclusively wear skinny jeans. I'm terrified of any other cut of denim.

Some people are willing to betray years of friendship just to get a little bit of the spotlight.

During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.

A true friend is someone who never gets tired listening to your pointless drama over and over again.

you never make the same mistake twice. the second time you make it, it is no longer a mistake. it is a choice

Like everybody and trust no one.

I think that it's really nice to learn that makeup is different for every person. Everyone has a different feature on their face that they like to show off.

Life isn't an Island, you have to have other people in your life.

You can waste so much energy trying to make everyone happy, but at the end of the day it's impossible to please everyone, so you just need to focus on what makes you happy.

Women were expected to sit in the pews, receiving messages from men in the pulpit. Their role was to recognize God in their pastor, not to expect or demand that he recognize God in them.

View your body as something God has entrusted into your care.

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.

The aim of art is to create space.

I suppose directing on set is the most fun because it's a good crack and you feel you're on the battlefield whereas writing is a fairly solitary undertaking.

If you do not go within, you without

Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.