“Know yourself; keep your circle tight. Keep your friends and your work circle tight.”

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

For me, music comes naturally. I always just get in the studio and I feel like, wow, this is my heaven.

I’m often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

I think I’ve always been fine on stage – though I get nervous beforehand. But once I’m on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

The public’s not stupid.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don’t know it yet.

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It’s not attractive.

I love sharing my life with my followers. Hopefully, they are following me because they genuinely want to know me. It’s a way to connect with fans that wasn’t available just a few years ago.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

I’m not going to have a baby until I’m around 30 something.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

I am committed to glamour.

Stand naked in front of the mirror and say, ‘I’m f–king sexy.’ That’s where it starts.

It’s nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

Whenever I found something remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people be informed thereof.

I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

It’s a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.