This music business can suck all the love out of you, all the compassion for people - you can start to think you're better than them. But I want to continue to let people know that I'm no better and no worse, I'm just like you.

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 had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy.

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

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.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.