In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

I've never felt that fear is my enemy. Fear is my friend. It offers me a chance to stay alert, keep growing, continue creating something new. If you don't take that sort of risk, you learn nothing.

A man has always wanted to lay me down but he never wanted to pick me up.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

I fall in love with myself, and I want someone to share it with me. And I want someone to share me, with me.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books

So you have to take the good with the bad.

I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.

There can be no healing without truth.

A grandparent is the only baby-sitter who doesn't charge more after midnight - or anything before midnight.

Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.

Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.

A more normal, mature way to think about it [my work] would be, Oh, I work on multiple projects at once and they overlap, but the actual psychology of it is a lot more self-abusing.

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.