I'm not a creature of your government's creation. I'm not a creature of any government's creation. I answer to a higher power, and that higher power is music.

I'm a real woman. I have curves, I have a booty, I have thighs, and I'm proud of it.

Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them - and then, the opportunity to choose.

I’m not a portrait painter. I’m interested in the life behind the person.

"The magic of books is that they can take you anywhere."