Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.

Don’t look for a reason to be kind. Be a little more loving and kind.

Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men

my poetry is merely a body.you are the soul in my words.

I gave her my heart but she wanted my soul.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

Why it should be such an effort to write to the people one loves I can't imagine. It's none at all to write to those who don't really count.

I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.

Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country.

They should've built a city on rock and roll.