I have a lot of very close girlfriends and sisters - I'm from an all female family. My father often quips that even the cat was neutered!

Until we command the exact same salary as every male counterpart, I feel a political desire to stand by other women. If we don't stand together, that equality will never be fully realized, and that bothers me.

You know, it doesn’t matter how beautiful you are, if you don’t have anything interesting to say, then you’re still boring.

No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me.

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Everybody's trying to be the biggest, because if you're not the biggest, you don't survive.

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.