Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.

When you hear my music and you feel the emotion, it's real. When you see me in a film and you see a tear, it's real.

Traditional values are big in my life.

The talent should speak for itself.

People get comfortable with the way you are—they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.