Whether I’m wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I’m always the same person inside.

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

Live-tweeting your bikini wax is not vulnerability. Nor is posting a blow-by-blow of your divorce . That’s an attempt to hot-wire connection. But you can’t cheat real connection. It’s built up slowly. It’s about trust and time.

Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman’s body. Skinny’s not fine when the lights are low.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

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.

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

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

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

I like to feel blonde all over.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

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

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

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.

Many people look at me and think they know me but they don’t at all. This is the real me. I am a humble person, a feeling person. A person who cares about others, who wants to help others.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

Only the insecure strive for security.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

I said I was ‚The Greatest,‘ I never said I was the smartest!

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

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.

At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing. And nobody wore any makeup. The art was uppermost.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

I never expect to lose. Even when I’m the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth to see it like it is, and tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth, and to live the truth.

In my father’s generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I’m wearing.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

If you only believe that you’re an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that’s quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

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.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

They’re right to think that about me, because I’m the person most likely to sleep with my female fans, I genuinely love other women. And I think they know that.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.