You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

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.

If you cannot find peace where you stand you shall not find it where you land.

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

Is not marriage an open question when it is alleged from the beginning of the world that such as are in the institution wish to get out and such as are out wish to get in.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

Know that you have complete control over what you put in your mouth. No one ever ate anything by accident.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.

Deliberation is not a particular type of speech, but a political act of collective decision-making in consideration of consequences.

I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were

I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.