My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors.Collection: Color
It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.Collection: Differences
In the darkest place, shed the brightest light.Collection: Light
People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.Collection: Clothes
And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.Collection: Beautiful
Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.Collection: Gay
When the working day is done, girls they just want to have fun.Collection: Girl
Your own shoes are hard enough to fill, but somebody else's are even tougher.Collection: Shoes
Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.Collection: Beautiful
The more you practice and study, the better you are so I still practice and study all the time.Collection: Practice
I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.Collection: Friendship
When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.Collection: Giving
I wanna go south and get some more. Hey, they say that a stitch in time saves nine, they say I better stop or I'll go blind.Collection: Hey
Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.Collection: Music
Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually bogglesCollection: Mind
I've been a diva since I was four.Collection: Four
I have never been prouder to be a lifelong New Yorker than I am today with the passage of marriage equality.Collection: Marriage Equality
Secrets stolen from deep inside....the drum beats out of timeCollection: Secret
My career never went like anyone else’s, so I never followed anyone.Collection: Careers
If we truly want to end youth homelessness... then we have to invest in prevention and support communities as they work to implement these life-changing efforts.Collection: Life Changing
Goonies are good enough, good enough for meCollection: Good Enough
If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.Collection: Song
If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time.Collection: Friendship
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's deadCollection: Drink
It is not a dirty word, "feminism." I just think that women belong in the human population with the same rights as everybody else... The problem is, "A feminist looks like this, or is like that." We are taught not to like ourselves as women, we are taught what we're supposed to look like, what our measurements are supposed to be. I never hear what measurements men are supposed to be. Just women.Collection: Dirty
If you have intercourse you run the risk of dying and the ramifications of death are final.Collection: Funny
You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.Collection: Children
Everyone's gotta have a voice, to be able to speak out. Left supresses right, right supresses left, and what's left and what's right? You know? It's America. You gotta be able to speak out. That's why people came here from all over the world: to have a fair shake. Not more than somebody else - the same.Collection: Speaks Out
Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.Collection: Play
I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.Collection: Queens
I don't know many people who don't have somebody in their family who's a part of the gay-lesbian-bisexual-transgender community. It's not like they're aliens or outsiders. This is family.Collection: Gay
People used to complain to me all the time, 'I can't even hear you sing because your clothes are so loud.Collection: Clothes