When you tell your truth, you are coming from a real place, so you are automatically a leader.

You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it.

I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.

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 know who I am. I am not perfect. I'm not the most beautiful woman in the world. But I'm one of them.

If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.