Never let your heart take precedence over reason, otherwise you will have problems.

Nobody makes me do anything I don't want to do. It's my decision. So the biggest devil is me. I'm either my best friend or my worst enemy.

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

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

I feel so blessed to just have done what I had done. To be able to just use what God has given me is a blessing. You know, never mind the Grammys, never mind the records, never mind all of that. Just to be able to sing.

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.

My mother taught me that when you stand in the truth and someone tells a lie about you, don't fight it.