My God is a God who wants me to have things. He wants me to bling. He wants me to be the hottest thing on the block.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

Health is the greatest of human blessings.

As an actor, to do all sorts of different films is great.

[My favorite scientist] Michio Kaku. He deals with wormholes. Check him out. He's great.

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Most of my relatives are police marksmen, apart from my grandad who was a bank robber. He died recently, surrounded by his family.

Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.