The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

Color Wear it Like a banner For the proud-- Not like a shroud. Wear it Like a song Soaring high-- Not moan or cry.

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you-- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Celebrate all the things you don't like about yourself. love yourself.

Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner.

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.

To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby.

Being gay is like glitter, it never goes away.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel like any other insecure 24-year-old girl. Then I say,'Bitch, you're Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.

Cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls.