No one compares to you. Just remember that. There's no one out there - there's only one of you, and that's it. And whatever you believe about you that's great, no one else has it. And I can't look like you, there's no way I can slip into your body and be you, and you can't slip into my body and be me. This is all we're gonna get.

It hurts when you have to smile and you don't want to smile, but the best thing to do is to smile.

That's the message I want to give to every up-and-coming artist: Do everything that is going to help you later. If you clone somebody else, that's all they're gonna keep wanting from you.

You either learn from your experiences or go back and do the same thing, and I learned from my experiences.

I like what I see when I'm looking at me when I'm walking past the mirror.

I started speaking about what I was dealing with through my music, and 4 million women responded and said, 'Us too, Mary.' And I didn't know that everyone was hurting like I was hurting. I had no idea.

The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things.