HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

Never a failure,always a lesson.

My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt.

Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

In the first two years of my career, there were a lot of restraints on what I could do. I couldn't wear certain colors of lipstick, like bright pink, dark pink or red; [my lips] had to be natural. Eventually, I stopped communicating with certain people at the label, and did exactly what I wanted to do. And that was to cut my hair, dye it black, change my clothes, change my sound. Really to just express myself.

Don't lower your standards for anything or anyone.

It's tougher to be vulnerable than to actually be tough.