I like to think about the quality, content, and concept for my music because I think these are the most important things and it just molds everything together.

I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

I am able to stay humble because I recognize that God has truly blessed me; I can't say that enough. I also understand without Him, all of this wouldn't be possible.

I love music; I was never the type of singer to say, "This is my specific genre, or I only sing R&B music." I feel like as a singer, you should be limitless and you shouldn't be stuck in a box.

My husband, children, and my family are my biggest supporters. I just pray to God to keep my family and I aligned at all times, and I just remember where it all got started before show business.

I just have to give credit when it's due because there are some things that took place in my life that I couldn't explain at all.

As you're learning your lines and the character you're playing, you're going to make mistakes but I learned more about Shug Avery. I learned my lines, but everything had to be done quickly.

Some of the songs have a tinge more pop this time. I wanted to go into different worlds.

My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.

I am working on a list for collaborations and it's just another way to share your artistic talent with other artist.

I had to get used to the theater atmosphere because I haven't had a role on Broadway since Aida. It was a different process from day one because I was learning my parts by myself.

Your life is your journey. You have to enjoy it because no one can feel or see it for you.

‎"He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.

I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

A good poet is someone who manages in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

There's beauty in anger, and anger for me is a passion.

Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.