“I’m never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.”

Better friends than lovers. Sugar can’t you see? You need you and I really need me.

Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you’re doing. If you’re not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.

When God loves you, what can be better than that?

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.

And I’ve been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I’m an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin’on sixty-five.

I’m a big woman. I need big hair.

I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is.

My faith always has been and always will be important to me.

Now, occasionally I will still have that quarter pounder because I love fast food, but you have to keep it to a minimum.

Women have broken through the glass ceiling, and they’re now more and more in the power seats.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.

People really don’t have to give you anything, so appreciate what people give you. And just don’t let that go to your head, whatever it is they give you.

I’m the lady next door when I’m not on stage.

I love to sing. It’s just a natural thing for me.

Let’s start with the church. As you know, it’s my background, it’s a natural setting for me and it’s definitely my roots.

Through it, all smile and try to enjoy life through the good times and bad.

No one in life can enjoy peace until they know the meaning of it.

Sometimes we get so caught up in our daily lives that we forget to take the time out to enjoy the beauty in life.

The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it.

Enjoy moments before they become memories. 

A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.

I mean, if you didn’t get it or if you didn’t feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.