I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is.

Leather, high heels, and a bad attitude. Here I come.

I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'

They can't scare me, if I scare them first.

Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.

The traditional British view is that character is what matters in a general. They like a solid, simple man, with no newfangled nonsense about him. He should be preternaturally silent. If by chance he thinks at all he should not let this leak out, otherwise confidence would be destroyed.