"Food is meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If you're using it for any other reasons, take a step back and ask yourself, 'What's up.'"

"My grandmother always taught me, 'If you don't have a home, family, and church, you don't have anything.'"

"I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies."

"Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer."

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

"If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area."

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."

"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan."