A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.

I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time.

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.

I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibi

Where music leads, I follow.

Let's not be overconfident, we still have to count the votes.

To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

I'm so interested in the brain. I read true crime.

A cat that jumps on a hot stove will never jump on a hot stove again. Neither will it jump on a cold stove.

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

When you give up on life, never give up on yourself, because there is so much for you to keep on giving!

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.