“If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you’re gonna make it happen.”

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I’m not vain, I’m insecure.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You’re all I know. I can’t let go.

I’ve seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don’t think that’s who I am.

There’s a hero, If you look inside your heart.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

Cause there’s a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can’t take that away from me.

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don’t believe, that’s all there is to see,you’ll never know the real me.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever’s on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

It’s hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don’t know me.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

It’s in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I’m clearly dramatic.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I’d never be, I’d never be the same.

I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

I’ve always believed in the old-fashioned way: When you’ve got scoundrels in office, you vote ’em out.

It’s not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

I truly believe that one day we will get there, we will arrive. And if we do it right in America, maybe, just maybe, we can serve as a model for the rest of the world.

Believe in yourself and go for it.

I don’t believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

I stand up for what I believe in, and a lot of the time that can be against people’s opinions.

I stand up for what I believe in, and a lot of the time that can be against people’s opinions.