I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

I'm just very good at pretending.

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.

I may not be the conventional girl, but that doesn't mean I'm not a pretty girl. Or that any girl isn't a pretty girl.

I think the definition of 'the greatest racecar driver' is different to everybody.

As an artist, we depend on our face as a source of living.

When I put on a dress, people have a lot of questions to ask, so I like putting on a dress just to get people to ask those questions and open up a dialogue.

They treat you as if you are a different kind of human or life form when you are a celebrity - as if we don't breathe the same air, or we don't bleed the same - and I hate that. I really hate that.

There's so many different kinds of beauty.

When someone is themselves through their music, it's soul music. James Taylor is soul music to me 'cause it's just him talking about him. It doesn't have anything to do with black or growing up in the church; it's where it comes from. It's just soul music.

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else.