If you’re too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‚cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing.

When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn’t truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn’t come from your spirit and your soul, it’s an injustice to your position. And so, I’m really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Information, education, skills, healthcare, livelihood, financial inclusion, small and village enterprises, opportunities for women, conservation of natural resources, distributed clean energy – entirely new possibilities have emerged to change the development model.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

The stylish kids on the street, they’re the ones that set the trends. The designers see what they’re doing and go and design their line and sell it back to the same kids, and it’s like, why not go directly to the source?

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

I’ve never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that – of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.

I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my songs. I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see – or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

In the public eye, girls and women with strong perspectives are hated. If you’re a girl with an opinion, people just hate you. There are still people who are afraid of successful women, and that’s so lame.

I want people to follow their dreams, yes… but I’m not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers… I want to show them that there’s so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

In history people dressed much better than we do today.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Agency is a divine gift to you. You are free to choose what you will be and what you will do.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

I wear wigs all the time on shows, and every day when I’m in public, at Dollywood. People say, ‚How many wigs do you have?‘ And I say, ‚Well, at least 365 because I wear at least one a day.‘

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

I just dress like… I’m an old black man. Sorry! Like I’m an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it’s still the ’50s.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I am fearless.

The finest clothing made is a person’s own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

I’ve never written a song in my life. It’s all a big hoax.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I periodically realize every few years that the only person whose taste I really trust is me.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

When I’m inspired, I get excited because I can’t wait to see what I’ll come up with next.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

Well, we’re living in a material world, and I’m a material girl… or boy.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

Bravery never goes out of fashion.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

Every summer’s mine.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.