“I know people who’ve gone to jail. It don’t mean you stop loving them! They deservin’ love just as much in there, and maybe they needin’ it more.”

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

There was no other path for me. I knew this was my path. I had to follow it.

I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.

I’m a very caring person.

I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

All women are NATURALLY, bad ass!

Quiet moments recharge me.

I think we deserve people who really, really love us.

Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.

Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.

I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

You create the results in life that you believe you deserve.

If you gave them once the love that they did not deserve, they will come back for more.

If I only give you what you deserve, at least keep me away from what I don’t deserve.

Respect me, not because I respect you, but because I deserve your respect.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you deserve the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.