As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Don't go a full day or night without washing your face. You have to get all the dirt and makeup out of your pores.

I wouldn't adopt, but what I will do is give my time and go and try to be there for people.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

God loves me and sent his son to die for me so I have to live to please him because he saved me when everyone abandoned me.

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