With a lot of success comes a lot of negativity.

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Part-time effort, won't yield full-time results

Success advances the man's cause, adversity cleans the man's soul.

I love being a single mom. But it's definitely different when you're dating.

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.

We are always the most violent against those whom we have injured.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

I'm not some movie star relying on a studio. I have my own fans and I earned them.

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?