It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.

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.

A rule without exceptions is an instrument capable of doing mischief to the innocent and bringing grief -- as well as injustice -- to those who should gain exemptions from the rule's functioning.

Feeling lurks in that interval of time between desire and its consummation.

The injury we do and the one we suffer are not weighed in the same scales.

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music

Obviously, I need to study princesses further.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

The Gospel is the deepest consolation you can offer to the human heart.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.