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

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I don’t want to be called a point guard, but I can’t stop it.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

No one wants to see curvy women.

I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because that’s the way I am.

When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don’t let anyone persuade you to say it.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

I just want to be myself.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

The thing about the truth is, not a lot of people can handle it.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

Once you’ve changed who you are or who you’ve portrayed in your music, the fans, they’ll catch it… Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.

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.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

As long as my music is real, it’s no limit to how many ears I can grab.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

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.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.

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.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

I’ve been running a lot, taking care of myself.

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

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

I know a lot of artists say this, but it’s hard to put myself in a box. I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming form a special place. There’s no tricks.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.