I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career, it's amazing.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its sumptuous suggestion of a national death wish.

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

To choose the light or to choose other things is always the question.

It's good to be compared with Randy Johnson, and it's wonderful to be compared to all the best pitchers in the game.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

Zombies are the new vampire.