My faith in God is everything at this point. Also, my family and friends that I've had around me pretty much my whole life and my boyfriend, we've been together for eight years. I try to keep people around me who've been around me, who've seen me struggle. They know how dedicated I am and how hard I've worked. They know me - not the Jennifer from American Idol and Dreamgirls, but the real Jennifer.

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Indeed, God is always with us even when things look hopeless.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Long before "American Idol" people used to call me a diva. And I be like, "Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva."

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.