Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

Probably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

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

I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop, and so I’ve always had people buying them. I could always sell a few, even if I couldn’t sell a lot, and somehow my business grew because people happened to like it. I’m in a fortunate position.

My style has always been my own, just like my flow and style.

I don’t fear anybody… at all.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

Honestly, I always believed in myself. For real, for real.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

Your teammates give you the confidence. They give me the confidence all year, all postseason.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God’s grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

It’s very hard to find your own words – and you don’t actually exist until you have your own words.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

I’m like 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

It never mattered to me that people in school didn’t think that country music was cool, and they made fun of me for it – though it did matter to me that I was not wearing the clothes that everybody was wearing at that moment. But at some point, I was just like, ‚I like wearing sundresses and cowboy boots.‘

I just want to be myself.

A big ego means that you have some confidence in your abilities, really, and that you’re prepared to take the risk of trying them out.

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

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called ‚walking.‘

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

My jewelry’s all fake – from Claire’s. Or I get it from my mom’s boutique in Barbados.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

Hair is about when you’re younger. I am my hair.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.