When you're rapping, you do have to perform to a certain degree, but not every rapper is necessarily a gifted actor.

Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.

You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone.

Life is so much bigger, grander, higher, and wider than we allow ourselves to think.

I decided early on that I was going to put on my crown and rule my world by acting right and treating myself like a queen.

I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

No one ever got ahead by going through the motions. You have to constantly be improving yourself. Make your life the masterpiece you want it to be.

I really don't know how to be anyone else, and whenever I try to be anyone else, I fail miserably. Or I disappoint myself. It doesn't build my self-esteem, and it doesn't help me grow me at all.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

Naysayers are frightened by their own power.

Laughter is by definition healthy.

I stay out of the sun, which is very good. If you want to be in sun, please use SPF, it's important.

Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?

Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.

Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.