My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

I've learned to love my brown eyes.

If you're a creative person, what inspires you is always changing; it's always shifting.

Like anything, you just need to stay true to who you are and hope that social constructs don't get in the way of accomplishing your goals.

I want people to know that I'm a force to be reckoned with.

I'm the kind of person who doesn't wait for opportunities to fall from the sky.

One tip is to try and give your hair some time to relax. Don't over wash or over dry it.

I'll usually run an ice-cube over my skin to close all the pores. That's pretty much my daily routine.

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

I think that sexism existents everywhere.

I like people who don't take themselves too seriously.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.

Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.

Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.

Confess then, naught from nothing can become, Since all must have their seeds, wherefrom to grow, Wherefrom to reach the gentle fields of air.

You never can cure poverty. Poverty is in the eye of the beholder.

Without David Bowie, popular music as we know it pretty much wouldn't exist.

Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.