I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

The truth, a truth, and reality are not always the same.

Lonely’s a different kind of pain, it doesn’t hurt as bad as heartbreak. I preferred it and embraced it ‘cause I reckoned it was one or the other.

Memories, good and bad, can be used to help us heal if we don’t let ourselves be mired down in them.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

You know what I like about summer days? They're just made for doing things... even if it's nothing. Especially if it's nothing.

Fie on possession, But if a man be vertuous withal.

People don't rise from nothing.

I heard that chivalry was dead, but I think it's just got a bad flue.

If all of mathematics disappeared, physics would be set back by exactly one week.