I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

Never compromise and sell yourself short.

God is real. God is in me and in my life. I've been blessed, and he continues to bless me, and that is one thing that I will always know for sure.

Remember to be yourself.

Hold your dreams, don't ever let it go

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

I want to do stories that inspire people.

What am I but a little flesh, a little breath, and the thinking part that rules the whole?

In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

Get used to me, I am not getting used to anyone.

This is the goddess Fortuna. She brought luck - or took it away. But you'd put up with whatever she did. Because when she decided to favour you, it made everything worthwhile

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

I get scared of a lot of attention. I get scared of the spotlight. And I'm not talking about on the basketball court.

The point of life for me is just to make connections with people and share experiences with people.

The world goes on because of those who close their lips when they meet hostility from others.

In order to see Jesus, we first need to let him look at us!