Am Quotes

When your co-stars are 9-month-old babies, you fall in love. You start thinking, When am I going to have my own?

When I'm not working, I get very down, but when I am working, I get very immersed in it.

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

I am so not a proper, good female. I can't dance in high heels and I'm just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.

You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that.

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

My girlfriend is much better than I am at working hard then resting, and she demands that from me, too. She insists on having time when we don't do anything. We leave the housework and watch a movie.

I guess I still feel that I'm a comedian; if I had to pick one thing that I feel like I could do, it would be that. That doesn't mean that I like it, but I feel that's what I am.

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

I am not a televangelist.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.

Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.

Because wherever I am today, I still owe it to God and I owe it to two men - the Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X and of course, two very special women, my mother and my wife.

I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

I drink therefore I am.

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.