You've made love to my mind, now you gotta take me from behind.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

There are two things that really move me: music and acting. And I'm not talking about my music or watching myself as an actor, but listening to other people's music and watching other actors. There are so many different songs that have moved me. It all depends upon the mood that I'm in at that moment.

I still have certain goals that I want. Grammies... Other awards... an Oscar one day.

If I wasn't singing, I'd probably be, probably an accountant.

I was sheltered, and there's good and bad to that. The good was not getting into the drugs and the alcohol and the really sorry stuff, and the bad was finally coming out into the real world and trying to deal with it, which was hard for me.