I'm able to provide for my family and the people that I love with things that I never used to be able to. I'm getting to make music and work with amazing people. I just feel really lucky.

If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

I like to write poetry.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

That in my left pocket I have "heaven"... doesn't mean that in my right pocket I don't have "hell".

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets.

How idle it is to call certain things God-sends! as if there was anything else in the world.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time

We human beings are never happier than when we are expressing the deepest gifts that are truly us.

When life gets you down, just remember these three words of wisdom. "Bonk!", "Zap!", and "Yowsers!"