Once I find something I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive.

Act as young as you feel. You're not getting older; you're getting more entitled to be your fabulous self.

Sometimes you have to sacrifice your performance for high heels.

I wanted so badly to have a backup plan for when I'm not performing anymore. Let's be realistic: it's not going to be like this forever.

After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.

Life is short and you've got to get the most out of it.

Love is when you have a bad day but then you see the one you love and everything seems to be ok

Never say never. In your life you never know what's going to happen next.

No one can force me to do something unless I'm passionate about it.

I think I've been able to fool a lot of people because I know I'm a dork. I'm a geek.

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..

The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

To be is to be perceived

And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.

There's no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.

A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'