You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that’s a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that’s the thrill in fashion.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like ‚Destiny’s Child’s‘, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn’t love.

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 just don’t feel like I have to explain myself.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don’t hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

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

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

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

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don’t know how to manage it.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

A person who is truly authentic doesn’t need to play a role in life, we think, but can simply be him – or herself.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement. There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

When I get dressed, it’s like freestyling.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

I’m the type person, my safe place to be emotional is the booth.

Every man is his own hell.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

If you gonna wear the mohawk, you stick with it. You don’t just be dibby-dabbing. You make up your mind.

I can be a cruel person.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Fashion is one thing, but style is another.

The only shame is to have none.