I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

Hindsight is wonderful. It's always very easy to second guess after the fact.

I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.

Sometimes it seems like you and me against the world.

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.

If I have to, I can do anything.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

A lot of women are turned off by the physical appearance of some of the first feminists.

Depression, as far as I'm concerned, is just a waste of time.

I always believed that I could make it or I would never have spent so many years trying to get here.

I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!

God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.

These memories are part of my heritage, the fabric of my personality, and as real to me as the land itself.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

I had an enormous complex about my looks. I thought I was ugly and I was afraid nobody would marry me.

I hope to bring people to God with my songs.

Do not be afraid to get close to your opponent. The closer you are, the more you will learn.

Never can the innate power of a work be hidden or locked away. A work of art can be forgotten by time; it can be forbidden and rejected but the elemental will always prevail over the ephemeral.

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.