Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life. But I don't see that having a sexy image when you are on stage means that you don't love God. No one knows what I'm really like from that. I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair. I'm always so glammed up and so diva on stage and that's what they see. People don't understand that... No one knows my personal relationship with God and it's not up to me to prove that to anyone.

There's ups and downs in this love. Got a lot to learn in this love. Through the good and the bad, still got love.

What goes around comes back around.

This is such a pivotal moment in my life! I'm transitioning as a woman, and I'm finally able to express myself as I am.

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

I get nervous when I don't get nervous.

Playing Etta James in the movie 'Cadillac Records' really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It's no fun being safe.