I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

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.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Death is permanent. There’s no coming back if you get off the ferryman’s boat.

As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure.

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

All of comedy at some level is trial-and-error, whether it's a stand-up trying out jokes or a comedy show trying stories.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

Almost everyone is uncomfortable talking about money.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

... the ancient joy of helping the tribe to survive is constantly rekindled in the engineer's heart.