I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

It could be if I fight in front of one person or one million people. It’s still the same emotions.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

I have never used Auto-Tune in a live television performance, and I have never used Auto-Tune in any of my concerts. That is a promise.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

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

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

If you hear a voice within you say ‚you cannot paint,‘ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

If I’m gonna tell a real story, I’m gonna start with my name.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

I go down the street, people see me: ‚Hey, I pity-‚ right on, man, that’s a compliment to me.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

I am happy and I’m single.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Some guys look better as they get older.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

I don’t lose any sleep at night over the potential for failure. I cannot even spell the word.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‚Dang, she looks good for her age!‘

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I always wanted to be loved.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I only act from my heart.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

I know a lot of athletes and models are written off as just bodies. I never felt used for my body.

When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.

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

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I just have a thing in my brain that when I’m about to do something that’s genuine or authentic, I think of it in song form. I’ll be like, ‚Yo, this is a human emotion that no one talks about.‘

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

I tend not to really think about what other people say. I’d rather just try and focus on what I’m doing, try and win basically.

I want people to understand they have to live their own lives the way they want to and not just do what we do.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.