I listen to gospel music.

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 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.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands.Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance.Do you have to make me feelLike there's nothing left of me?

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Having the positive belief that it will all be O.K. just means that you hustle and make it work because failure is not even an option in your own mind.

A man can never hope to be more than he is if he is not first honest about what he isnt.

I thought of myself as a writer for years before I got around to writing anything.

All is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe.

Where. Is. He?" Alphonse repeated, although it sounded more like "Don't make me eat your face.

In order to accomplish something, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish it.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

I have a great map of the Tibesti Mountains in the southern Sahara or Northern Chad. It's a dream of mine to go there, but it's such a volatile area, you have to be prudent.