Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

To move forward, you have to give back.

The key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional GPS that can tell you which way to go.

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe.

I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.