“You can’t be creative when you’re completely happy.”

I’d rather bleed with cuts of love than live without any scars.

We hate so fast and we love too slow.

It takes a lot of people years to turn a negative into a positive. It takes me, like, an album.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It’s the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it – no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Big productions, to me, are great – like, I love going to Vegas and seeing shows – but I think that sometimes it’s distracting, especially when you are there to listen to the music.

My mom has always wished me a daughter just like me.

This life gets lonely when everybody wants something.

For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, ‘Wait, I’m doing what I want to be doing. I’m not wanting to do it; I’m doing it.’ And that’s awesome.

Change the voices in your head. Make them like you instead.

My fans mean more to me than they will ever know. I call these people my friends and my confidence and if they are here to see me and they are here to support me, then that’s all I need in life.

Gotta get up and try.

I don’t think imitation is the highest form of flattery, I think it’s annoying.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

When I first appeared, people couldn’t figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.

I’ve learned I’m not lying by not saying anything, so I just don’t say it anymore.

Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.

It is play and only play that makes man complete.

Movies are the work of a collective conscious. It takes 500-800 people on a movie to complete a vision.

I always try to do something for my husband that’s completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.

Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.