If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

You don't have to be doing vocal acrobatics or singing all over the scale to have soul.

I just want one day off when I can go swimming and eat ice cream and look at rainbows.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

I don't mind being compared to Whitney (Houston), there are people miles worse to be compared to.

Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth.