I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

I was reading poetry to my girlfriends, and they were like, you're really good. You should go to some poetry readings or something. And I eventually went and got a, you know, somewhat of a name for myself and a little bit of a following.

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

When I first became famous, I didn't know if I could go where I wanted to because I didn't know how people were going to act. Some folks would scream and holler, and I didn't know what to do with that.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person.

I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the underwire cutting into my flesh.

Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.