“You can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.”

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.

I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.

No matter how much you’re going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you.

My problem is that people get intimidated by someone big and beautiful like me. They hate to think I can be smart as well.

A person really doesn’t become whole, until he becomes a part of something that’s bigger than himself.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.

Let’s face it; God has a big ego problem. Why do we always have to worship him?

Just being a mother is making me a big, weepy mess.

Without doing the big blockbusters, I wouldn’t be able to find the money to go after little projects that I want to do.