I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

Be good to yourself 'cause nobody else has the power to make you happy.

I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.

I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.

Change is a stranger you have yet to know.

Without despair, we will share, and the joys of caring will not be erased. What has been, must never end, the joys of caring will not be replace.

People, you can never change the way they feel. Better let them do what they will. For they will, if you let them, steal your heart.

It's important to me that I should be free to express myself.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.

I have to believe that somebody up there thinks I've still got some work to do.

I have never thought about my sexuality being right or wrong. To me it has always been a case of finding the right person.

Men who have nothing to lose never give a thought for eternal life.

Not everyone man is a lover, not every love is the love.

Emotions unreel in her like spools of cotton.

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

All great things are done for their own sake.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.

It's always a live experience - anything that happens around you. It's so easy to just put it to a song.