Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

I told you I was trouble, you know that I'm no good.

Never to have to think of yourself as white is a luxory that makes you deeply stupid.

This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.

President Obama announced that he's going to reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba. He wants to act before Seth Rogen makes a movie about Castro.

A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me.