Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Don't chase the money... chase the passion. Because that's what is going to keep you happy and motivated and jumping out of that bed Monday morning.

I haven't seen the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, the Louvre. I haven't seen anything. I don't really care.

Love every part of yourself. Even the things that frustrate you. They make you who you are!

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

Stop saying these negative things about yourself. Look in the mirror and find something about yourself that's positive and celebrate that!

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

I love the confidence that makeup gives me.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

I did not want my tombstone to read, 'She kept a really clean house.'

Rebel, rebel, you've torn your dress. Rebel, rebel, your face is a mess. Rebel, rebel, how could they know? Hot tramp, I love you so.

Free from what? What does that matter to Zarathustra! Clearly, however, shall your eye show to me: free for what?

Popularity is not a gurantee of quality.

My mother used to sit at the foot of my bed and she would share her dreams with me.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.

The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.