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

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.

My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.

We’ve been expected to be perfect but we aren’t. We’re still human.

One doesn’t remain a teenager forever.

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

No stress, no fights. I’m leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.

I really rebel against authority.

Never listen to anybody who try to discourage you.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

I’m experimenting with my voice. Every day I do different things with it, and if I feel it’s appropriate I do it on the record.

Birth control has almost completely and totally disappeared from the global health agenda, and the victims of this paralysis are the people of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.

Our Savior is our true Mother in whom we are endlessly born and out of whom we shall never come.

Being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born.

Sufferings gladly borne for others convert more people than sermons.

Nothing born of sun and storms is ever weak in any form.

Speaking up is my birthright.