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"I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character."
"I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down."
"I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog."
"I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it."
"Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy."
"We listen so much to everybody - more than ever, because we have a kabillion voices whose opinion we can access - and we care so much if everybody agrees with us. To bust through all of the noise is very challenging."
"With each new day, I'm learning how to take control in order to have balance in my life. I plan time for myself and my loved ones and take it."
"My son makes me super giddy, especially when he laughs. His laugh makes me laugh like a maniac!"
"It's a beautiful blessing that I get to help raise a man. And I want to show him as much as possible."
"Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career]."
"When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements."
"When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment."
"I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it."
"I think it's the ego in us that screws us up."
"The climate of today is not really focused as much as it was then on being able to speak about different cultural issues or different situations that were going on politically."
"I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears."
"I'm very blessed to have a phenomenal husband, son, and beautiful family and friends around me."
"I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is."
"If I didn't love it, I would not record it."
"I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder."