I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

My mother taught me beauty really lives in places like a smile.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all

I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

I'm proud of being a mother, a wife, a daughter, and a sister, and a lover and a friend We're all God's children.

I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.