I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.

I like to dress, I love to have make-up on, I like to do my hair.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

I believe that I'm going to have a Grammy.

I see myself continuing to be a songwriter and a motivator and someone that has grown in her faith.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.

I want to continue to do music and stay on the stage because I love the stage. And I want to continue to write songs.

Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career, it's amazing.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

God doesn't want you to be happy, He wants you to be strong.

I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.

You do have to follow your heart, otherwise you're living a false life.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.

A good story needs only a good storyteller.

The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.