I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.

Never give up on your dream... because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

To achieve anything great in life you must be willing to make a sacrifice.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

When you make pain look this good it never wears out.

I'm careful with my heart. I don't take crap from no one these days. I put my foot down. Being a woman, you deserve heaven and earth.

I feel like, if it's supposed to happen, then it'll happen. God will send me somebody special, whenever the timing is right, so I'm just patient.

I think the most beautiful thing is that we're not parting because there were problems. We're parting because we're celebrating each others' growth.

I'll be stuntin like my daddy.

I think nowadays we're often sidetracked by what somebody got popular doing with all due respect to what they do, but it should be about the talent.

A woman, desires to hear nice words from a man who can praise her beauty.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It's never reasonless and its reason's not usually nice.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

I don't know what Art is but I know some things it isn't when I see them.

I don't like things too overstated in the cut or too perfect.

It's raining questions around here. A person could drown in them.

Give weather reports. It helps the reality of a scene if foghorns are blowing or kites are in the sky on a windy afternoon or the day's so hot wallpaper is peeling off the walls.

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.