Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

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.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

When teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan.

People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

I may be a twin, but I am one of a kind.

Its diamonds in your pockets one week, macaroni and cheese the next.

Everyone knows that the Zionist regime is a tool in the hands of the United States and British governments.

The purpose of education is to make the choices clear to people, not to make the choices for people.

By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.

I don't like getting patted down and taking off my shoes at the airport.