You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

My journey continues, because I've, you know, conquered a lot. And I know how to conquer the rest.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.

I don't think I'll do foster care or adopt, to be quite honest.