When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

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.

Statecraft and kingship were not for the faint of heart

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

I am a survivor. But I am not unique of the people that survived the great late war. We all have our stories to tell. But for most of us the hardened corners have soften with the passage of time.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson