My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

If you haven't got love, you've got nothing.

I like listening to old soul music. I like Sam Cooke. When I was growing up, the first things I was listening to was Whitney Houston and Cher. They were really big inspirations for me.

You meet someone, you care for them, and you fall in love; it's what it is.

I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.

I can't watch my first audition because it makes me too upset. I just think it is really sad. I look at myself and don't recognize myself. I do think fame and fortune changes people.

I like to write poetry.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

Constantly having to think about money is not nice. People used to say, 'Being rich doesn't make you happy'. And I'd think, 'I've got no electricity, nothing - tell that to my empty fridge'.

If you are not happy with the song, don't sing it. Simple as that - no-one forces you to do it.

I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.

The real battle is within yourself.

PARENTHOOD is journey of being driven to the BRINK of INSANITY and BACK...Like a YO YO!!

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

When I don't feel free and can't do what I want I just react. I go against it.

I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.

Sometimes the poorest woman leaves her children the richest inheritance.