If you believe something enough, it comes true eventually, and that's so true even with lies. If you tell yourself a lie, after a few years you'll think it's true.

I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.

I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an alternative for people.

Fake it, fake your confidence until it's real. I think it's a good way to live most of your life.

There's no one particular road that will lead you to success. I think everybody will find it differently.

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

I don't want to live in real life. It's too harsh, too brutal.

I quite like dark humor.

My biggest fear is love and getting hurt in love but still believing.

I feel like artists that are always quite sad in real life always make really happy music, and artists who are really bouncy and bubbly always make really sad music.

I don't really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don't. I guess you just learn along the way.

Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I could be back in time to light the candles and set the table for dinner.” ♥ Gladys Taber.

I may be a famous writer but when white people clinch to their wallet and stare at me with scorn I need to ask my skin why.

Rights and empowerment are interconnected: unless a substantial number of women in a community come to believe that they have rights and demand to exercise them, right remains an abstraction.

Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language.

As a guy I never liked being told to call, which my wife really never does, and that's why I call her as often as I do.

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.

Regeneration is the fountain; sanctification is the river.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

I would not have gone to Philly if I really did not have my free agency right, if I did not have a case, period.

A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you with a vengeance.