I know I'm not perfect.

A bad boy with a good heart, I think that would be perfect for me.

It's sad. That's a living creature. We don't have the right to take their life away for fashion.

I love to go get fireworks, even though some of them are illegal.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

It's always great to have a great mascara that makes your lashes look thick and full. That's a definite must have.

Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.

With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym.

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

I have a constant sweet tooth, so I like anything from the bakery, like cupcakes, cookies.

At 18 I was attracted to bad boys.

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

There are two types of risk in life: the danger of trying and the danger of not trying.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

If more people were screamin', I could relax.

The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.

Precisely that, covering 500 years of African-American history in six hours. I've been working on this for seven years. The biggest challenge was deciding which stories to tell.

The theater of the mind is impossible to compete with, and I like the idea that with a few suggestions, each reader forms in his or her own mind what a character or a place looks like.

If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.

Don't ask me something if the answer doesn't truly matter to you.

It takes two to get one in trouble.