I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.

I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

Sometimes you have to lose to win again.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

It's always good when you can bring two artists together who are totally different.

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.

Suffering is humbling. It pays to know how to get your butt kicked.

No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with which the world is filled.

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not to laugh.

Always find a time to sit on a humid autumn bench to feed the poor birds or to think the dying leaves!

I quite often feel that my greatest task as a father is to raise children who love what is good, true, and beautiful, and who are therefore aliens in this popular culture.

Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg