I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.

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.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.

If you focus on good, you will excel and reach higher planes. if you dwell on the negative aspects of life, you will get nowhere fast.

They compose poems to their knives.

I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say 'yes, women can.'

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Casting is 65 percent of directing.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

all girls are beautiful in their own way