“I think I’ve learnt a lot about bullying and how to deal with bullying and how to get over that and to just be yourself and forget the haters.”

In real life I’m pretty easy going and pretty chill, I’m not the party girl who will go wild and crazy necessarily.

If you can take it to the next level and really tell an interesting story in a unique and fresh way, then I feel like that’s a great song.

I think one day I’d like to win an Oscar.

I am a little crazy but when I’m on-stage, then I really get to play it up and perform and be over the top and it’s like an outlet. It’s fun to ‘wild’ out.

It’s nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

Ke$ha is super talented and super fun and always down to party – I love that girl.

Being older now, grown, I’m like, ‘What do we really do that’s fun?’ I’m kind of corny when you think about it. What could I rhyme about? Let me see, um, I gotta pay the rent today.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.

I wouldn’t think I would coach again, because it would just be hard not being in the Cowboys’ blue.

It’s not that I take pride in being unfashionable. It’s just that I’ve gotten used to it.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Growing up in America is like being taught to be stupid.

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged.