In the studio you can really concentrate on performing the song where as on stage you also have to worry about connecting with so many people, they're definitely different.

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.

Passing their toilet training is the very last thing that some adults did that has made their parents proud of them.

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.

The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.

Jazz to me is a living music.

Winning the world championship in '66 was really the pinnacle of the whole thing, because to win a championship with an Australian made engine was a fantastic feather in our cap.

I'm a lot older than my little brothers and sister, so I think I grew up babysitting them.

The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.

my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out

Writing history and biography for kids calls for special skills that can only be acquired through practice and that are different from those required for an adult audience.

Figure out what is real for you. No use leaning on someone else's story all your life.