Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

Be careful of who and what you let into your space. Not everyone is worthy of your presence.

So in every sense, from an independent artist to a major label artist, you just have to have great product, great faith and great people, they all go together.

I love opera so much. I would never go back to doing it, but I love to listen - I'm grateful for it. I studied diction, breathing control, phrasing, why the song means something. You want to bring that across to your listeners.

I study a lot of the greats; I study the current people out now and what people are listening to now. I don't shun anything away; I just check it all out and make my own judgment.

I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.

When you don't know how beautiful you are, you will always be in search of happiness.