I myself never feel that I'm sexy. If people call me cute, I am happier.

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

People have to respect intellectual property.

I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.

My mom was very strict when I was growing up. I could not talk to boys until I was 18. I had to study and work hard.

I love to prove people wrong. They expect I'll sound a certain way when they see me, then they hear me and they can't believe it. I love that.

They cannot imagine what I'll sound like. But always when I'm done singing, people are very surprised.

I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

I'm sporty, active, bubbly, I like to make people laugh... I'm the jokester. But I'm also very traditional.

Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation. The ground at the foot of the cross is level, and it touches my heart when I see whites standing shoulder to shoulder with blacks at the cross.

Power: a currency that never went out of style.

I never knew that I had an unusual voice. It wasn't something anybody really pointed out to me.

When I'm working behind a camera, I feel like I'm trying to achieve something like a jazz musician does.

The test of character is not persistence when you expect a light at the end of the tunnel. The true test is performance and persistence when you see no light coming.

Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

Some people only know how to copy others and some people are just subconsciously over influenced by what they hear rather than having a sound of their own.

In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.