Crying is not a weakness. It's something that should be able to work for you. It should also be a strength. I think if you can cry when you feel like crying it's a strength. If you feel like crying and you can't cry, that's a weakness. That means you're holding all that stuff inside.

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it's up to them to find that quality and let it live.

I was skinny as a rail and had high cheekbones and a very interesting face - or so I was told.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.

I don't take the English press seriously at all because all they want is dirt... I hate them.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.