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

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

I always say this about my music, and music in general: Music is like a time capsule. Each album reflects what I’m going through or what’s going on in my life at that moment.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

Enemies are so stimulating.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I disagree with everything I used to say.

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow, but my mind is OK.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

I’m tender on the inside.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was ‚call attention to yourself,‘ or ‚think you were smart.‘ My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson’s disease.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don’t think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Don’t judge. I used to buy underwear because I didn’t do my laundry.

Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.