Every man should know, if you’re comfortable and you like it, you should do it. Everyone always worries about what the girls think, what the guys think. If you like it, do it.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world’s phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak. So I’ve been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I’m one of those people.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

I always say that women should wear whatever makes them feel good about themselves. That’s what I always try to do.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

He who is brave is free.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

It’s very unnatural to be someone for so many people. But of course it’s very nice.

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

The most common criticism I get is that I’m being manipulated and you shouldn’t use children in political ways, because that is abuse, and I can’t think for myself and so on. And I think that is so annoying! I’m also allowed to have a say – why shouldn’t I be able to form my own opinion and try to change people’s minds?

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

The people who are doing the work are the moving force behind the Macintosh. My job is to create a space for them, to clear out the rest of the organization and keep it at bay.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I’m not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I’m totally myself.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I’ve done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it’s nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I’m not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they’ll have, immediately the floor will rise.

I got my own back.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‚Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.‘ They’re changed. Trust me.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Don’t try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

You know, I just do whatever feels right to me! And so that’s what you’re gonna get!

Rituals are important. Nowadays it’s hip not to be married. I’m not interested in being hip.