It has cost me a great deal to become myself. I don't want to be another person.

I sing against emotional dictatorships, and against the imposition of one person over another, in the name of love.

I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Sure, I know that I cannot speak in proper English. I know that I can't sing in proper English. I don't care.

Hope is for people who wait. And I don't want to wait no more. I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of myself. Of my things. Of my fear. Of absolutely nothing. And that's music.

Las Vegas is a very strange place. It's a place of broken dreams.

I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

I am the consequence of a particular type of demographic movement, one that has always involved paying a high price. But I don't know much about styles or genres. I only know notes and chords.

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

I'm not scared about saying what I think.

Most ladies do not understand that first and primary they need to find and fulfil their life calling

One day I asked God to move the mountain ahead of me, but he said no because he wanted me to experience the joy of being on a mountain top.

Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

A mother's love is a sanctuary, Where our soul can find sweet rest, From the struggle and the tension, Of life's fast and futile quest.

I'm a tough person. I wasn't afraid of other kids because I understood that someday they'd wash my car.

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is that we lie to ourselves. We don't step back and look at ourselves like a competitor would.

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down.

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.