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

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

I think everyone’s inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, ‚Well, if everyone likes it it can’t be that good.‘ Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.

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 know if I’ve ever cared much what others think.

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

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.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I’m not frightened by anyone’s perception of me.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

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

I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching.

I modelled my looks on the town tramp.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

When the NBA adopted their uniform that they had to wear, I thought that was very interesting. And you see the way NBA players dress: It’s very cool.

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It’s a natural process.

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

There are a lot of good women in New York.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I’m big on what’s in good taste.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

If I feel good about my parenting, I have no interest in judging other people’s choices. If I feel good about my body, I don’t go around making fun of other people’s weight or appearance. We’re hard on each other because we’re using each other as a launching pad out of our own perceived deficiency.

A smart girl leaves before she is left.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn’t dare do themselves.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

With a suit, always wear big British shoes, the ones with large welts. There’s nothing worse than dainty little Italian jobs at the end of the leg line.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

When the best leader’s work is done the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Liverpool people are famous for liking clothes and fashion; they are very social and lively people, and we know that they like clothes.

I was raised to be independent.

You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

I do have a few little tattoos, but they were mostly done to cover scars because I’m so fair.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

You are victors, not victims!

My style influences my music and everything around me.

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.

We can’t afford not to educate girls and give women the power and the access that they need.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.