“Find light in the beautiful sea. I choose to be happy.”

Even angels have their wicked schemes and you take that to new extremes.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

You can’t master your future if you’re still a slave to your past.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug.

Put your troubles aside and start living.

I may be bad, but I’m perfectly good at it.

I just love a challenge, whether it’s a relationship, my career, clothing.

When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

Lipstick can glam up a whole look, especially in red.

The minute you learn to love yourself you won’t want to be anyone else.

The more I swear I’m happy the more I’m feeling alone.

When I cut my hair, the whole sound changed, my style changed.

I rarely know exactly what I want to do, but always know exactly how I want it to make me feel. Feeling always leads the sound!

All my favorite artists and fashion icons and models are from the Nineties. Everybody was just so fearless.

When you start falling for somebody and you can’t stop thinking about when you’re going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

She’s a beautiful wildness on fire.

She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle…she fails in the end but there’s something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who’s coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.

Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.

The audience’s reactions are more important: if people believe in the love story, it’s because they love how we’ve acted. That’s the most beautiful award. It’s very important for me, people appreciating what I do.

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

I think life is perverse. It can be beautiful, but it won’t.