I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.

If I wanted to be a pop singer, I would have done that 20 years ago. I love country music.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.