You can't force music; It just has to come to you.

I never wash my hair the night before an event - I call it second day hair, and it holds better.

Nobody has any right to tell you what you aren't capable of. If you're meant to, you're able to. There is no such thing as impossible.

You're not only the spotlight in which you perform, but the shadows where you practice.

Every day is a reminder of what I need to do to be the best person; the best me.

You are yourself, and you've never been more beautiful!

Nobody has your eyes. They can look at the exact same thing & could never see what you see.

I was raised to volunteer: nursing homes, clinics, church nurseries, school, everywhere that could use help. It's such an intrinsic part of me, to use my life to help improve the quality of others.

To love is a brave thing. To be loved, braver still. But allowing yourself to love yourself? That takes the most courage of all.

I've got stories untold & maps to unfold, but everyday I get where I'm going

A real, healthy relationship is about empowerment and love and that should be standard - but it isn't.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right." (pg. 481)

The reward is found in the work.

If I ever loose my eyes, I won't have to cry no more.

There are books that a writer undertakes because she wants to go on a journey, and there are journeys a writer undertakes because she wants to write a book.

Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.

I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise.

Harry was just thinking that all he needed was for Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was all alone in the office with it, when the bird burst into flames.

For me as an actor, it's really fun to play someone who's not human.

Performance-enhancing drugs are an illusion. I wish I had never gotten involved with steroids. It was wrong. It was stupid.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.