"I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still."

“Poetry and prayer are very similar”

Source : "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.

“We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.”

“Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.”

“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”

Source : TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.

“I’ll always be doing stand-up as long as people are still interested in seeing me.”

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

“I'm focussing on what I haven't attained, not what I have. A lot has come to me early. I don't want to get consumed with that. Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living in the now. My goal is to play one full game in the now, but I haven't even gotten past the first inning yet. I start thinking about where my mom is or if my dogs have been fed. The average human has 2,000 thoughts a day. The really accomplished have 1,500 because you can focus longer. I need to learn how to focus longer.”

“You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.”

Source : "T-Pain almost ended up working at McDonald's". The Associated Press interview, www.today.com. June 8, 2007.