In the morning of the night ~~ When I woke to find you gone ~~ I knew your distant devil ~~Must be draggin` you along

Mothers tell your children `Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.` Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it`s own greatest strength--it`s diversity.

I`ve sold my soul for freedom. It`s lonely but it`s sweet.

I definitely feel we`re moving forward. There`s a lot more understanding... there`s less fear and we`re working on there being less hatred.

Don`t let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Love is never wrong.

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it`s own greatest strength - it`s diversity.

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

I`ve been a rock star since you were very young. But I`ve never encountered anything as powerful as cancer.

I`m so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

This is the only naked man that will ever be in my bedroom. [Backstage speaking to the media at _79th Annual Academy Awards, The (2007) (TV)_ on her win for Best Song, "I Need to Wake Up" for the documentary _An Inconvenient Truth (2006)_.] [25 February 2007]

"She has her own opinion. If people want to listen to it, that`s fine...I don`t believe in shutting anybody up." - (2000) about Dr. Laura Schlessinger`s views against homosexuality

Be strong, speak true and spread the peace.