I'm more straightforward, and I speak up more than I did before. When I was younger, I wouldn't speak up as much, but now that I'm a mom, things have changed.

I'm usually all about the tight jeans and little T-shirt, but sometimes I want to put on a black, sequined dress and be a freaking girl

I like meeting all my fans and signing autographs, although it can all get a bit crazy. Yesterday, for example, a boy just came over and planted a big kiss on my face! I was like, 'Hello?'

Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty.

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it.

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

You'll never see it my way, because you're not me!

I used to be a cool chick but I'm not anymore.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.

Don't hate the media

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

I'd thought I wanted to live free of my mundane little cage, but the world outside was feeling more and more hazardous.

Maybe when I die and I'm thrown overboard, I'll turn into a mermaid.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Lightning seems a thought, which instead of being attached to a brain, is attached to an electric current.

Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

When I was broke, no one ever offered to buy me a beer. Now that I have quite a bit of money, everybody tries to buy me beers. Where were all these people back when I was in college and broke?

Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults.