You never know until a song comes out and becomes what it becomes, obviously you can't predict how the masses will react.

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

I'm a sucker for corn rows and manicured toes.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

I'm into cotton underwear. I don”t need cheetah print leather to make me feel sexy.

My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

Night is mine, together with a substantial part of the future.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Gotta get myself a million, gonna turn that into a billion.

Always be the right person for the right job at the right time. Remember time is always right.

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.

Marriage to me means unity, it means strength because I believe that both people can be stronger in their calling because of each other.

The challenge of the believer is to take the faith that you got in here and take it to the place out there.

The earth will solve its problems, and possibly our own, if we will let the earth function in its own ways. We need only listen to what the earth is telling us.