I'm no different than you.

Always respect yourself and don't go out there disrespecting yourself.

I keep showing decade after decade that I am a real performer.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

It's a sweet thing, faith. With it, you can handle any circumstance, any crisis, because you know God always has your back. And when God is for you, who can be against you? Nobody. As my Aunt Hattie says, "One and God are a majority."

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

I like hip-hop music, but some of the lyrics make me want to cry.