“If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it’s me. I don’t feel frightened; I feel challenged.”

I have the stardom glow.

For me, fashion is an expression of who I am right in that moment – so what you’re seeing is what I’m influenced by now.

No matter where I go I know where I came from.

There are certain people that are marked for death. I have my little list of those that treated me unfairly.

This is the man my mother lived for. My career means something now because I’ve worked with Robert Redford.

Sometimes you have to explore the darkness to get to the light and get back to who you are.

The minute I feel nervousness or anxiety or fear, I go, ‘No, no, that’s not a thought that I need to have right now. Everything’s great, everything’s good, you’re going to be fine’.

Things don’t always turn out exactly the way you want them to be and you feel disappointed. You are not always going to be the winner. That’s when you have to stop and figure out why things happened the way they did and what you can do to change them.

You can’t let the fear of what people might say or think stop you from doing what you want to do or else we would never do anything.

I don’t really check out other people’s butts.

Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.

I think the best partner you can have is someone who makes you want to be the best form of yourself.

Love to me is someone telling me, ‘I want to be with you for the rest of my life, and if you needed me to I’d jump out of a plane for you.’

You can’t take life for granted.

I’m very comfortable with being productive. I like doing things, and I like creating things. As far as being powerful, I guess I’m comfortable with it. It’s not really how I think of myself.

Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for.

I’m not a gay rights activist.

I can’t say I don’t like acting, but I can’t imagine a career when I have to spend 70 percent of my time in a trailer eating Snickers bars.

My family and I built my whole career from scratch.

Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.

I have had lots of luck in my career but there has also been a lot of hard work.

You have your bad moments in your career and your good moments. And it’s been a good ride so far, but it’s not over yet.

I’m an athlete. I go out there and fight my heart out.

When you love something, every day goes by in 10 minutes.