"It hurts my feelings. Being picked on for being too skinny is as detrimental to self esteem as being picked on for being overweight. I think the most important thing is, whatever you've got, be proud of it. As long as you're healthy, no matter what size you are, there's a way to be happy with who you are."

-Brittany Murphy, who starred in 8 Mile with Eminem and Just Married with Ashton Kutcher. (Source: Seventeen, September 2003)

8/30/2003 05:41:02 PM [+]

 "My faith hasn't just gotten me to where I'm at -- because a lot of people are where I'm at. It's made me happy with where I'm at."

-Jessica Simpson, newly married to 98 Degrees' Nick Lachey, and busy with her new CD, In This Skin, and a new MTV show, "Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica." (Source: CosmoGirl, September 2003)

8/30/2003 01:00:13 AM [+]

 "You gotta have vision! You gotta be unafraid. You can't lock people into boxes that the public does."

-Pharrell Williams, music producer and half of the hip-hop duo The Neptunes, in response to the suggestion that it was a risk to work with teen-y boppers Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. (Source: Q magazine, September 2003)

8/29/2003 10:41:38 PM [+]

 "I'm only 15. I'm not finished and healed and all better. You don't really land at a certain spot and say, 'Okay, I'm fine now!' I'm just trying to accept myself."

-Nikki Reed, co-writer and co-star of the movie Thirteen, a semi-autobiographical film about the destructive patterns of teens. (Source: Seventeen, September 2003)

8/29/2003 10:31:20 PM [+]

 "This is a travesty! I demand a recount. My grandfather raised me on Johnny Cash, and I think he deserves this more than any of us in here tonight."

-Justin Timberlake at the 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards, accepting an award for a video from his Justified album while giving tribute to Johnny Cash, who was nominated for six awards and claimed only one (Cash was hospitalized and couldn't attend). (Source: CNN, August 29, 2003)

8/29/2003 09:23:14 AM [+]

 "I pray about everything. Anything that I'm about to do with my career, I always pray about it first. Afterward, I don't worry about it anymore. I just know it's gonna be okay."

-The latest American Idol, Ruben Studdard. (Source: Seventeen, September 2003)

8/28/2003 10:52:49 PM [+]

 "It depends on what mode I'm in. I'm an artist that everyone knows loves to change characters a lot. I don't like to play it safe. So this time around I might go for something people might not expect. I could come in a nun's outfit ... and that'll be great!"

-Christina Aguilera, of Stripped fame, on what she'll wear to the 20th annual MTV Video Music Awards. (Source: MTV.com, August 27, 2003)

8/28/2003 06:57:25 PM [+]

 "Every photographer wants to be the first one who talks Beyonce out of her clothes. It's prestigious for him if I expose a nipple. ... When they make those kinds of demands, I leave. Goodbye. I want to be respected and remembered for my talent in the first place, not for my booty. ... Some women show some nudity in all their pics. But I am known for being prudish. I don't have a problem with sexy clothes. Any really hot fashion thing I'll wear. And I'll put on a bikini if the scene is on the beach. But vulgar for no reason? Never."

-Beyonce Knowles, recent solo artist and member of Destiny's Child. She was also asked if one of her songs had ever come on the radio while she was making love. Her response? "Oh, I hate that. It messes up the vibe." (Source: Sky News, August 28, 2003)

8/28/2003 08:39:38 AM [+]

 "Evangelicalism has never chased relevance more determinedly than it does now. And yet, we've never been more irrelevant."

-Os Guinness, author of The Call. (Source: ChristainityToday.com, August 26, 2003)

8/27/2003 09:54:20 AM [+]

 "It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeing, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture."

-Johnny Cash, explaining his cover of the Nine Inch Nails' song "Hurt" on his American IV: The Man Comes Around album. (Source: MTV.com, August 26, 2003)

8/27/2003 09:41:52 AM [+]

 "If I were God for a day, I would have no more illness. No one would be sick. No one would be hungry. Everybody would have lots of money, everybody would be in love and all the girls could weigh exactly how much they wanted to weigh. And girls wouldn’t have our periods. "

-Macy Gray, who recently released The Trouble With Being Myself. (Source: VH1.com, August 11, 2003)

8/26/2003 08:14:29 AM [+]

 "The public doesn't care about figures."

-Arnold Schwarzenegger, gubernatorial candidate in California's recall election. (Source: Star Tribune, August 21, 2003)

8/24/2003 10:17:22 AM [+]