I've lived next door to people all my life. I don't know how cute they think I am.

Your imperfections are what make you beautiful.

All the knowledge that I have doesn't necessarily make me brilliant, but I love acquiring knowledge and then sharing it with everybody else.

I was rejected in school because I didn't look like the big-breasted, beautiful girls. I was awkward and sad. My mother always said, "Be original!" but I didn't understand until I changed to be like everyone else.

You don't have to give birth to someone to have a family. We're all family - an extended family.

Don't be someone else's slogan because you are poetry.

Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.