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.

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

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 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.

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.

I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

Feeling is always first for me in anything. I think the only way for sure that I know how do that is to write songs about things I feel strongly about.

God's unique capacity is too surprising to surprise.

Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

The girl doesn’t need a violin,” he added. “She needs to have her hands bound so she can never touch an instrument again.

There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul.

When you're overwhelmed by your emotion, you listen less and you judge more. This is also the reality of the dogmatic mind.

With whose imperfections will you bear, and what insult are you capable of enduring, if a thoughtless word from your own Superior is unbearable?