When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs.

You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

There's not enough time to be disrespecting... Life is too short.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

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