I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up.

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.

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness.

Love is like the truth sometimes it prevails sometimes it hurts.

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

In just - Spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee

Whatever we do, make sure we clean up baseball.

You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.

Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.

It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.