We're all going through our problems, but we all have the same insecurities and we all have the same abilities and we all need each other.

The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that. You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist - whatever you want to be - and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive.

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me.

So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority. We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.