Chingy Quotes

I try to do different things, beautiful things, to play the game the way I see it, and I think I'm doing it pretty well.

For me, people see me working with my celebrity clients, but it's important to show people how they can make their lives their own red carpet every day.

I just wanted to play tennis. I started because I wanted to pick up another sport and then as I was slowly getting better I wanted to see how far I can go but I always wanted to be myself. I wanted to be original. I didn't want to copy anybody's style.

Style can change your look, certainly, but it can also change your life.

I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.

You develop a voice and a process that's unique to yourself.

For me, living a balanced life means nurturing the academic, physical, and spiritual aspects of my life so I can maintain a sense of well-being and self-esteem.

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

My style is part of my lifestyle and part of my preparation to get ready to play in the game. It's my preparation for life, I should say.

I'm now able to show who I am as an artist.

Every month, every week, something new excites me. I'm finding my niche as to what suits me the best. I am a young girl, and if I am just running around in a jeans and a T-shirt, that's a lot of life lost.

I don't think I'll ever do a record that's just the same song over and over again because I'd like to think about it like it's an album and a snapshot of everything that makes you who you are and where you're at at that time in your life.

Yoga has always been a part of my life, and it has had a major effect on me as a person, inside-out.

My biggest challenge in my career is not looking or sounding like anybody.

I just need to be on the path to my own self-cultivation, my own self-actualisation.

'True Romance' was definitely, in part, still me finding my voice as a writer. I was nervous, and I was a lot more shy. The album sounds bruised.

You're always trying to make each record more autobiographical than the last one.

Yoga is immediately rewarding, whatever your level, because it's not about being able to attain the perfect lotus position. Each day, there is an improvement on the day before. It's not competitive; it's not a race. With yoga, the journey is the destination.

I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher.

It is the individual voice, present to itself, that needs to be heard. We need to hear the process of the musician working on himself. We don't need to hear who is more clever with synthesizers. Our cleverness has created the world we live in, which in many ways, we're sorry about.

I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph [ the way] you believe it.

Meditation will change your life for the better, enhance your physical health, improve your sleep, and help you achieve your goals, both material and spiritual.

Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. What provides the motive, the energy for discipline? This force I believe to be love. I define love thus: The will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.