I wasn't born a superstar.

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

I'm not a prostitute but I can give you what you want

I love my mother. She's my first love. She has been through a lot and is a sole survivor.

Boy lift it up, lets make a toasta Lets get drunk, its gon bring us closa Don't I look like a HalleBerry posta?

I mean, when it's time to rhyme rhyme, I can get down for mine.

I'm close to my mother, and I could sit talking on the phone with her all day.

Angie: "How do I pitch these ideas to her?"Mira: "From a distance, preferably wearing body armor.

It's not the lies he tells, it's the seductive way in which he persuades you they are not true.

If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

It's not the dreaming, it's the doing.

Looks, health and elegance are what counts. Someone can look wonderful in a sweatsuit.

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals -- or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all.

I got nominated for a Tony, which was a complete surprise. It was an experience that I will always cherish

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.