But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

My own style influences have to do with where I grew up, in the Bronx, and I still like to wear bangles and big hoops!

It's a shame to call somebody a 'diva' simply because they work harder than everybody else.

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.

I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.

You have to remember the value of your individuality - that you have something special and different to offer that nobody else can.

Don't push your weaknesses, play with your strengths

I have the stardom glow.

I'm a hopeless romantic and passionate person when it comes to love.

I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Matched with an aged wife, I mete and doleUnequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

If you wish good on someone with your whole heart, you cannot hold onto feelings of unforgiveness. You will be free.

Winning and Loosing is a part of game, Arrogance is the animal you need to tame, Conscience is the thing which can get you fame, Oh GOD !! please help me to do the same.

You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.

I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing.

Philosophy is really homesickness.

In our time, when the literature for adults is deteriorating, good books for children are the only hope, the only refuge.

Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

We two are to ourselves a crowd.

Without zest, what is life? Just waiting for death? It can't be anything else. Only with zest do you live; otherwise you vegetate.