I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A peacock that rests on his feathers is just another turkey.

I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Holy solitude, Holy peace.

New levels bring new devils. Stay unapologetically committed to your goals and let go of anyone who poisons your spirit.

Granted, not all uneducated women are prostitutes, and, not all prostitutes are uneducated. However, where building a family is employment, an uneducated woman's womb is her diploma.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

I've been there and done all that, sold millions of records, and that doesn't bring you peace.

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

You have to attempt to find new forms that will force you to write freshly and better and hopefully more truthfully.

Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.

If a movement is to have an impact it must belong to those who join it, not those who lead it.

They ask me what the biggest thing I have going on right now is, and I usually say, "I think this interview?" And then they don't get that it's a joke. So then I say, Yogi Bear 3D. That's my default.