I didn’t get into this business for other people to know my name.

Falling in love was the easy part; planning a wedding - yikes!

I'm a Gucci girl all the way.

If there is someone in your life who is not serving you or making you better, give yourself permission to move on.

The old adage is true, people will only be as good to you as you are to yourself. They will follow your example, and those who don't will be left by the wayside.

I don't wear my faith on my sleeve, but I definitely do walk with it every day in my heart.

There's nothing wrong with having a collection, but it becomes a problem when it overwhelms your space. When you're not displaying it properly, you're not enjoying it and it turns into clutter.

I feel like love is the thing we were created for, yet it's the place we struggle the most.

I don't need to do a reality show to make my mark in this world.

I joined church by myself in a borrowed suit at 13. I had my neighbor's bible. So my walk and my faith have always been very real.

I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.

Many great ideas are not unique. They only become unique when the men who have the wherewithal actually to implement them come together.

A woman is a poem, a man is a report

If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear.

In the heart of a human being, emptiness becomes love. When we touch that Source, instantly the love is present. Literally, the divine becomes human and the human becomes divine.

I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to be encouraged because I'm writing from the Christian worldview.

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me.

People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.