Even in my music, I am always searching for big, universal things - ways that you can sort of reach outside the norm of what you are doing.

The way to bring about change is to be proactive and active.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

I can only live in my truth.

To be silent is to be passive.

As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

You have to create your own path and I'm up to the challenge.

The things that scare you only make you better and stronger.

I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.

Everything happens when it's supposed to.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

The sixth gift is Joy. May it keep your heart open and filled with light.

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.

I don't want to watch people fighting.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

Promise me, Amelie, that you’ll crucify me with silver before you allow me to fall in love.” “I hardly think there’s any chance of that,” Amelie said. "I doubt you have the capacity.

A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.

I don't believe in your "Good". I believe in human kindness.