I decided to start my own label because so many people with talent come to me wanting to know how they can get in the music business.

I know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

I listen to gospel music.

I don't know. Only God knows where the story ends for me, but I know where the story begins. It's up to us to choose, whether we win or lose and I choose to win.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.

Negative words are powerful boomerangs so be careful what you say about people and yourself.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

One thing I love about politicians

Forward is forward.

Look at the woebegone walk of him. Eaten a bad egg. Poached eyes on ghost.

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

The Cisco announcement that their revenue might slow due to shortage of parts meant, therefore, Nortel was down because it's competing in the same market. I think that was the big negative.

Heaven no longer exists, nor does the earth.

Lose not courage, lose not faith, go forward.

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

Only the most saintly and delusional among us welcomes all pain as challenge, perceives all loss as harsh blessing.