Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

Goonies are good enough, good enough for me

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

I never had a rivalry with Madonna. You don't knock another sister, ever. There's room for everybody on this planet; you don't have to be like anyone else.

Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.