The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can get people interested in your beauty. But you cannot maintain that. In the end, talent is the only thing. My work is the only thing that's going to change any minds.

Power is a great aphrodisiac and I am a very powerful person

Art keeps me alive. I've obviously been devastated or heartbroken all my life, since my mother's death.

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

Who needs a smile when a tear's so full of love?

On any given night, catch me on the floor, working up a sweat, that’s what music’s for.

You have to reinvent to stay fresh, to stay in the game