I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

I think mentors are important and I don't think anybody makes it in the world without some form of mentorship. Nobody makes it alone. Nobody has made it alone. And we are all mentors to people even when we don't know it.

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.

I always knew I was a hit record just waiting to happen.