I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that's just the bottom line.

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

I don't like to be a preacher or anything, but the one thing that I've learned is that you truly are what you eat.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I feel as if I've been able to do so many things I never expected to do.

Some find it in their lovers eyes, who can deny the joy it brings. When you've found that special thing, you're flying without wings.

I'm racing against me. As long as I come across the finish, I'll be okay.

Do not live WITH what you had done...Live FOR what you have to do.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

I knew I would be in the story somewhere," Eugenides interjected. "Oh no," said Phresine, "This was a humble servant." "Ouch." "Though very courageous." "Not me," whispered Eugenides to his pillow.

The notion of auspiciousness is something positive, something with forward momentum, coming out of our actions.

The whole world yearns after freedom, yet each creature is in love with his chains; this is the first paradox and inextricable knot of our nature.

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

Every man is obsessed by the memories of his own youth.