“It’s tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.”

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

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!

By getting into distribution and production, I am actually widening my base.

The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.

The history of making war with biological weapons begins in mythology, in ancient oral traditions that preserved records of actual events and ideas of the era before the invention of written histories.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

In the actual state of social relationships, the forms (“formes”, Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence.

The actual fights themselves are very demanding.

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Most people don’t like to be confronted with an actual fact-of-life because it’s difficult to metabolize.