I'm 27. I feel like I get it. I'm OK with being sexy if I feel like it. Some days I'm brainy, some days I'm funny, some days I'm sexy, and sometimes, I just want to dance.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

What is true today may be false tomorrow, and true again the day after tomorrow.

No sword Of wrath her right arm whirl'd, But one poor poet's scroll, and with his word She shook the world.

The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it.

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

I've got a great family and a beautiful house. I feel very lucky as far as my lifestyle is concerned. I'm not really interested in fame and all its trappings.

I focus on the task and try and do it as best we can. And we're constantly evolving it, because it's my way of trying to make sense of all these ambivalent feelings I have.

In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios.

There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to say, the Haves and the Have-nots.

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.