I guess I have to prove myself all over again, even if it's to the world. I don't have a problem doing that.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

I don't care how much money you have in the world. It's not about that. It's all about time.

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

I had an attitude problem when I was a kid. I'm not gonna lie.

I've traveled the world in one of the best groups ever. I'm 42.

I want to raise my own baby. I don't want my baby crying for some other strange lady, some nanny. I am not down with that.

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

It's amazing what miracles and little angels and pure love around you can bring out.

I have learned to smile when I wasn't happy, to sing when I didn't feel like it, and to do things just to please my fans.

Leave me alone in the long desert forever, and I won’t give up on my dreams.

An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.

A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

I am a natural optimist but there were times when (it seemed like) I was doing nothing but adding up on the back of envelope what I had to pay this month.

Men are boys in bigger packages.

Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.