When someone has a weight problem when they're pregnant, they will struggle before, during and after to lose weight.

If you ain't got a fat woman, you're making a big mistake, because a big fat woman tastes as good as a T-bone steak.

But what I miss the most is knowing just exactly where it hurts, knowing just exactly what is wrong and what I want.

Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.

I knew I could do anything I wanted to do and go anywhere I wanted to go and not have to worry if I could afford it.

I wrote my first song when I was seven and that was kind of country. Now I'm just like 'No! Why did I play country?'

I realized I can do other things. I started developing opinions on serious matters and it's not all sugar and spice.

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book.

When I sing songs, I love to put emotion into it. I want people to feel what I feel and just disappear for a moment.

I would like to meet Mikhail Gorbachev. I think it would be great to sit in a room with him...and try to make peace.

The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

When I played Lady Day, I took Aba onstage with me as a joke. He started singing-in tune!-and the audience loved it.

[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.

Xena, above all, remember your destiny. Remember it and fight, fight to come back. This world needs you. I need you.

People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'

People are intimidated when they first meet me, but it doesn't take them long to realise I'm just an average person.

I thought I'd take style to its limit... My philosophy is a belief in magic, good luck , self-confidence, and pride.

I am working on a list for collaborations and it's just another way to share your artistic talent with other artist.

When you're in a band and write a song on your own, it isn't fully realized until it goes into somebody else's ears.

I always love watching those natural actors like Bill Cosby, Raven-Symone and Shia LaBeouf - just effortless actors.

I just want everybody to have a good time, because I'm goin' out to have a good time. I'm going to go have some fun.

I love fried okra. The fact that it's okra makes me feel like it's good for you - I forget the fact that it's fried.

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

No, I don't regret my decision at all, especially after I started this music career. My eyes were as big as saucers.

The prisoners still keep killing each other thay hung six yesterday thay fight all most every night in the stockade.

Water is essential to life! It's also great for keeping your skin looking good and healthy, which is an added bonus.

Pilates is amazing, my posture is so much better and I'm even starting to get muscles on my tummy - it's incredible.

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me.

Power lies in reason, resolution, and truth. No matter how long the tyrant endures, he will be the loser at the end.

I had to cut a lot of things I wanted to keep [in The Art of Elegance]. I'm going to have to do a part two for sure.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

I wasn't born into a family that told me that I wasn't capable of what my brother was capable of. I can do anything.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Heaven and hell are something that people create to make some people feel guilty and other people like myself laugh.

Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here

Eventually I realized that Cry Baby was a character that was based off of me, and that we had a lot of similarities.

I've always found that the most powerful way to create change is to be myself and not be afraid to express who I am.

I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.

What I'm trying to do is maintain some mindfulness about being popular - I wasn't so great at that last time around.

I grew up dancing. When I was three years old, my mom would always watch Latin ballroom dancing competitions on PBS.

If you smile through your fear and sorrow, smile and maybe tomorrow you'll see the sun come shining through for you.

You move differently than you do when you're filling the stage at Radio City. You have to be bigger than life there.

I love to see people's faces change when they hear me speak English and they realize how far I have been able to go.

Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.

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