“Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.”

My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone’s shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.

I have a mother that’s very strong and family that surround me and constantly tell me they love me.

When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That’s what I wanted to do.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

I’m not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn’t do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don’t have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

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’d rather be alone than unhappy

I believe the children are our future

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.

If I should die this very day, Don’t cry…cause on Earth We wasn’t meant to stay.

I’m a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.

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

I wish to you, joy and happiness. But above all this, I wish you love

Let the children’s laughter remind us how we used to be.

Life is simply what out feelings do to us.

You drain your energy in proving your worth to the world then wonder why you feel so empty.

What makes friendship indissolute and what doubles its charms is a feeling we find lacking in love: I mean certitude.

She built walls to protect herself from intruders who made her feel unworthy.

It might feel like sparks to you but to me it’s fireworks.

To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought – these are the artist’s highest joy.

I can’t choose how i feel. But i can choose what I do about it.