It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.

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.

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head

I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?