When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

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.

Believe in yourself when nobody else does.

When life is real, it's not going to be smooth.

God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.

Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.

Reason obeys itself

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Discovery peaked 30 years ago. It takes no feat of the imagination. It takes no feat of intellect to conclude we now face the corresponding peak in production in 2005.

Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.

I had no kind of work ethic and I always felt that music - especially rock 'n' roll - was a more for boys.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.