“Me and God we don’t get along.”

I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.

They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read.

I don’t like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.

To be honest like when you work at something for a long time and then coming to a family of people who support what you do hmm, you are very lucky!

Being an entrepreneur doesn’t make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn’t mean that you’re successful. It just means that you’re interesting.

We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.

I’m personally more struck by visual things more than musical.

I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music – I take what I want and leave the rest.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people.

I’ve got a war in my mind.

Life is beautiful, but you don’t have a clue.

The angels decided to shine on me for a little while.

Taking time for your art is taking time for yourself.

I never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There’s nothing to hide.

I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I’m not that comfortable.

America’s not the world’s policeman. Terrible things happen across the globe and it is beyond our means to right every wrong. But when, with modest effort and risk, we can stop children from being gassed to death and thereby make our own children safer over the long run, I believe we should act.

I don’t know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- ‘social justice.’ For that is what I have believed in and fought for.

Get rid of those friends of yours who make fun of you and don’t believe in you. And when you leave here tonight, go home, make a phone call and fire them. Anyone that doesn’t believe in you and your future, to hell with them.

Ultimately, it’s not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people’s expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

I believe discrimination still exists in society and we must fight it in every form.

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me.