I never thought I would be singing for the world.

I can't do some of the songs that younger girls like Mary J. Blige and Beyonce are doing. They have their own place and I have my own place.

I know how to put it on when it comes to interviews and performing because I have to. But I'm pretty laid back.

Tell Aretha I’ll be praying for herBecause she needs Jesus!I love her.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

So if anybody wants to get me something, get me 60 crabs - one for each year. I don't want no diamonds, I don't want no shoes, I don't want no party. I want some crabs.

God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.

That's another lesson I've learned the hard way. All relationships will die if they aren't nurtured. Just as a flower will die if it's not watered. Because love is demonstration, not declaration.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

I just sing the stuff that makes me smile, makes me feel like I didn't sell myself out.

Tell me what you want, and I'll tell you who you think you are. Tell me what you fear, and I'll tell you who you really are.

To feel the joy too much:let us trust too much, let us love too much, let us hope too muchand let us belong too much.

What, then, was the new strategy he proposed? More troops and more money. For him, any other option was unthinkable. It would mean he had made a colossal mistake.

Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.

I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation.

It is not until you have the courage to engage in human relationships that you grow.

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

What are you using?" I asked. "Fascination or glamour?" "Both," she said, giving me a wicked smile

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

Have the moral courage to be a light for others to follow.