“When I record music I like to be in one place and kind of have a base to keep going back to.”

Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.

For me, music comes naturally. I always just get in the studio and I feel like, wow, this is my heaven.

I’m often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent.

I think I’ve always been fine on stage – though I get nervous beforehand. But once I’m on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

The public’s not stupid.

Every person has a signature. Just some people don’t know it yet.

The worst thing is when a guy just looks awkward. It’s not attractive.

I love sharing my life with my followers. Hopefully, they are following me because they genuinely want to know me. It’s a way to connect with fans that wasn’t available just a few years ago.

True beauty is knowing who you are and believing in yourself. Happy people know their purpose, have courage to fight for it and strength to keep going.

I’m not going to have a baby until I’m around 30 something.

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too.

I am committed to glamour.

Stand naked in front of the mirror and say, ‘I’m f–king sexy.’ That’s where it starts.

It’s nice to always make an effort when you get photographed.

I really have paid my dues! When I get to stay in fancy hotel suites these days I remind myself of that.

I have had young fascinations but never love.

We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.

The surest sign that you’re working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don’t complain very much about doing what it takes.

The audience makes the decision of what kind of actor they want to watch. I always have said in the last 20 years, the real boss is the audience.

I believe there’s 31 flavors to be tasted. I’m just living my life. I don’t want to be your kind of good.

There is a certain kind of light that only comes from having been through a certain kind of darkness.

I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS’ being some kind of divine retribution is crap.