It's that first step-getting out the door-that's the toughest. If you can do that, you've already won.

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.

Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us.

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

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.

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.

So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things.