Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves – and maybe a smile.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Done is better than perfect.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

One reason why Canada has national healthcare and the United States doesn’t, is that in Canada the labor movements militantly advocated for national healthcare. In the United States the same unions militantly advocated for good healthcare for themselves.

For me, skinny is just a style of jeans – not a goal.

We (pop stars) are people not androids. We’ve got views. I’ve got opinions and I don’t see why I shouldn’t use a bit of my art to put them over. I think music is one of the most powerful media forces in the world today.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.

You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.

The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.

I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man’s surety.

That’s right, it was a boy. And finally, we have a member of the royal family with an actual excuse for being a toothless, petulant, useless human being…That one could get me into trouble back home.

Then I realized that secrecy is actually to the detriment of my own peace of mind and self, and that I could still sustain my belief in privacy and be authentic and transparent at the same time. It was a pretty revelatory moment, and there’s been a liberating force that’s come from it.

Every race is a chapter. Those are two important races. Who knows what Sunday will bring?

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

If I don’t feel confident about my body, I’m not going to sit at home and feel sorry for myself and not do something about it. It’s all about taking action and not being lazy. So you do the work, whether it’s fitness or whatever.

Plenty of times I wanted to haul off when somebody insulted me for the color of my skin, but I had to hold to myself. I knew I was kind of an experiment. The whole thing was bigger than me.

I get my design inspiration from Christian Dior and Chanel.

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Throughout this life, you can never be certain of living long enough to take another breath.