When I was a kid, I needed to sing because it makes me feel good about myself. It makes me feel good, period.

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

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

I don't want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That's drama, because then you become something that you're not.

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

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

I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.