If you're a boxer, you have your trainer. As an actor, I have Ivana Chubbuck. She's my teacher as an actress and in this crazy thing called life.

I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.

I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

I love a cool bralette paired with a high-waisted jean, maybe with Chanel suspenders and a good platform shoe.

I love being on tour I love being on the road. It's the most amazing feeling ever. I live for it I love it.

I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.

When you're changing your diet, or you're becoming a vegan, your system will become a bit more sensitive, and you just have to deal with it.

I'm an activist. I'm a proud activist. So I want to be someone who is pro-black and pro-Africa and still be somebody that has positive influence.

To me, success is making a positive difference through art - making art that affects the world and that changes the way people feel about themselves and the world.

I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

Toulouse Street ran one way toward the Mississippi River. Jackson looked over [Imogene's] head into one of those famous New Orleans courtyards, full of lush foliage, mossy brick, secrets, and wonder.

Jupiter is slow looking into his notebook but he always looks.

We tolerate differences of opinion in people who are familiar to us. But differences of opinion in people we do not know sound like heresy or plots.

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.

***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

I started going back and forth, New York, London, New York, London. I wasn't looking back at all. I was doing tons of jobs. Working, working, working, working.

The market and its inescapable law are supreme.

If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.

A good imitation is the most perfect originality