I wanted to do Playboy to get across the same ideas I'm singing and writing about these days. It's all about proving that a woman can defy stereotypes.

Eventually you can get into the nuts and bolts of reality: nurturing, caring, and getting along.

When youre a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it cant last forever.

If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless.

You never have to second guess a person or your feelings and instincts about that person if you pay attention to their actions, not solely their words - actions always speak louder.

Maybe with your emotions and your feelings, someone else can say it in a different way than you would, which brings new life to the way you might sing it.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

Don't wait on approval, validation and likes from others - always give yourself the highest of approval ratings and work from there. Hold your head up and be fabulous no matter what!

Right now I'm single. Single, and loving it.

I wanted to be open. On the last project, "Affection," I co-wrote everything. Sometimes, I think, it's smart to step away and be open.

Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window

Agree and freely switch on the heart that will take “no” as an answer to some questions.

There is time to compromise. There is time to absolutely abhor d word. Most times it is the latter. Compromise is mediocrity. Compromise is cheap.

Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!" Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

The loans I took out for my undergraduate degree were manageable. But my legal education was more expensive, and I paid for it almost entirely through public and private loans.

Time's stern tide, with cold Oblivion's wave, Shall soon dissolve each fair, each fading charm.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they're now more and more in the power seats.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.