Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview

You can't appreciate the good times without the bad ones.

I was thinkin if I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith. I can marry my dreams.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.

Happiness comes from you. No one else can make you happy. You make you happy.

It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything

Imperfections make you more beautiful.

Haven't you ever noticed that life is like a series of movies?

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

If I start outsourcing all my navigation to a little talking box in my car, I'm sort of screwed. I'm going to lose my car in the parking lot every single time.

I really don't think of myself as a singer. I think of myself as an entertainer, and the best place I do it is onstage.

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

I can't say I have always been fashionable because we all have hits and misses.

Uh-uh. We've played this game before. I hide. You never seek. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but I'm beginning to sense a pattern.

If you don't remember history accurately, how can you learn?

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.