I'm the Eagle: I can fly.

What I try to pass on in my work for everyone is that we can be who we want.

You cannot make somebody else responsible for your own happiness.

You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.

My characters are turned upside down and trying to reinvent themselves but don't need a white knight. They can save themselves in a crisis.

What is it that you're not doing - in your work, in your life - because you feel you need permission? If someone had given you that permission as a youngster, what do you think you'd be doing now?

You are more beautiful than you realize, stronger than you know, more powerful than you could imagine.

I was not going to be a stupid girl singer. I was going to be way more than that.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this...

Nobody will write in your contract that you have the assurance to play.

Be yourself and work as hard as you can. Don't let anybody influence you to not be yourself.

I've stopped blaming myself for being a woman. I've stopped being apologetic about my sexuality and become comfortable with myself.

But I also like to be in control, like anyone else. I try to achieve a balance.

Just because somebody says no doesn't mean that you have to listen. You can do what you think is right.

I will continue to hold my head high and not let negative, bitter people get me down.

I'm keeping my power to myself and my glow. I'm not giving anybody my glow anymore.

If you're going into finance, you might be dealing with a lot of sexism and a lot of alpha behavior. How are you going to deal with that? How are you going to feel powerful and comfortable with being...

I want to win and dominate. I don't want to leave it in the judges' hands.

My mom is proud of me. My pops proud of me. Everybody keeps motivating me.

If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.

I can't spend the rest of my life being pretty in a bonnet.

I want everything that I've worked for to go into my pocket. I want all my money to come to me. I'm very much hands-on with my career, and I like to do what I want in the studio - I don't like being...

I speak a little Italian and Spanish because of where I grew up. I also am well-versed in Angelino slang and corporate Euro-speak. I don't like gimmicks. The biggest gimmick of all is trying to fit in...

I don't live on other people's terms.

Of course, I'm not just out here doing crazy stuff, but I'm not really - I'll just say I'm not scared to be me.

I'm not the guy to get beat down when I shouldn't have gotten beaten down.

I will continue to be good but if people think I don't have a voice and that I don't take a stand for myself, that's what I will do. I will show that I have another side to me.

I was not put here to be a background character in someone else's movie!

I will be my own kind of senator using my own best judgment and my own experience.

Not really in all honesty because until you take control of your own health and go to your own doctor and have your own doctor tell you what's going to work for you.