You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right.

No matter how hard it seems...never give up, always believe.

Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.

Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is.

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over 50 years. To me, that's what you call a legend.

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in your life. I live by balance.

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Anything the government gives you is just another link in the chains that destroy your liberty.

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

We can never have enough of Nature.

The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

Most people talk when they have nothing to say. I’m not talking because I have too much to say. None of which I’d want you to hear.

I like them brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, or Haitian Name is Phife Dawg from the Zulu nation.

I don't lose sleep over failures. I worry about the successes and how they can be replicated.

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.