Anyone can get a degree or a certificate in something. Big deal. A piece of paper from a university somewhere doesn't define a person. It won't tell you who I am.

Sometimes you have to wander around until you find where you really belong. And sometimes it's right where you started.

Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.

I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.

The only problem with one-man woman was that he was not a one-woman man.

I wanted people to watch. I wanted people to see us together. I wanted people to see us kissing today. I want everyone to know that you're mine.

Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.

I write romance because I love to read romance.

I finished 'The Hunger Games' trilogy, and I love most anything with zombies.

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long. It separates us from reality like a fog.

I was competitive in the ring and hip-hop is competitive too... I think rappers condition themselves like boxers, so they all kind of feel like they're the champ.

I choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.

I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

Once you train you develop your own aesthetic and your confidence. So, I think as I grow I'm learning how to be a singer. I'm training my voice and being on stage and singing and dancing.

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

How can I protect something so perfect without evil.

I've got a lot of energy at my shows, I'm very performative; that gave me the idea, I want to try to translate that into a musical project, having the same energy I have onstage and on my album.

Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.