I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

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.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

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

The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves.

The stranger smiled at her. "Humanity has found a cure to a disease they never new existed.

My mom was a great cook so I always wanted to eat and make stuff. I did cooking in 4-H but it wasn't until I was out of college that I decided I wanted to make this my career.

I have faith in young people because I know the strongest emotions which prevail are those of love and caring and belief and tolerance.

I had no idea that things would change so rapidly, so drastically.

No one leaves an old friend unless they are ashamed.

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

On the reals, all these crab niggaz know the deal, When we start the revolution, all they'll probably do is squeal.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.