I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.

I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself -- like I have no idea what I want, like I'm just a puppet ... That's demeaning to me, because that ain't how it is, and it never was.

If you say my eyes are beautiful, it's because they are looking at you.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.

She's my teacher, my adviser, my greatest inspiration.