“No matter how much money, fame, and fortune you have, it doesn’t mean sh** if it’s not connected with love.”

lf. I wasn’t going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

You can march to your own beat. It’s so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.

There’s no regrets for me.

I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don’t have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good.

After my tour I had time to stay at home, be with my boyfriend and hang out with friends and that brought me down to earth and helped me write music from a more relaxed place.

I just talk a lot, that’s the problem.

Wait a minute, I’m a fan of yours; you can’t be a fan of mine!

I get why certain actors want to stay in the closet.

Fame is a very strange animal.

Los Angeles can be a really sad city.

I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I was looking for something and I wasn’t sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses,

I breeze through Twitter – I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.

Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time.

There’s always gonna be people that are scared of it. But at the end of the day you give those bullies, those people, that are so ignorant, if you give them the power to affect you, you’re letting them win.

When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience – they love it.

The fortunes of the African revolution are closely linked with the world-wide struggle against imperialism. It does not matter where the battle erupts, be it in Africa, Asia or Latin America, the master-mind and master-hand at work are the same.

An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren’t gonna turn around.

Some of us know how we came by our fortune and some of us don’t; but we wear it all the same

I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and of my country, as great as the conceptions of my mind, when I think of the spirit that rules the universe.

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Several of the actors I’ve had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as ‘ultimate’. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.