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.

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

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.

One of the main roots of ungodliness is being a lover of pleasure more than a lover of God.

Your religion cannot be divorced from your relationships.

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

Thanksgiving is the day you don't know if you're invited for dinner or an intervention either way is going to be an ambush.

I want to make it clear to people that the idea of putting subliminable messages into ads is ridiculous.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

I think that's kind of indicative of a type of self-confidence that people develop when they recognize their own ability to create.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

I think that's the direction we [the americans] are going to have to go, the idea of people understanding that if you see something, say something, as simple as it sounds.