I want to go Africa. I want to go to China. There are some places I want to go not to work, but to really explore and to see for my own education.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.

Take a little time out of your busy day to give encouragement to someone who's lost their way.

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

You know, you do need mentors, but in the end, you really just need to believe in yourself.

It takes a long time to get to be a diva. I mean, you gotta work at it.

My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.

I can be a better me than anyone can.

If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.

To know another person is to Know How to live and work with her. To know another person in a moral sense is to Know How to respect her... Respect must show in action.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

Though the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple.

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

Make people's portraits in familiar and typical attitudes.

I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.

If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

Trust Emmett to find the joke in the destruction of my life.

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.