“If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus!”

I got this Jesus tattoo on my wrist when I was 18 because I know that it’s always going to be a part of me. When I’m playing, it’s staring right back at me, saying, ‘Remember where you came from.’

I’m really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.

I love the Seahawks because of Russell [Wilson] and I think that I’m going to probably go for them!

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn’t plan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

I think you become more relatable when you’re vulnerable.

Don’t care what people gonna think of you, do what you wanna do and seek just your happiness.

The hotter the fire the purer the gold is.

The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life, I would do things differently.

I’m okay with having bad dance moves. I’m okay with having horrible lower teeth. That’s what makes me me, and for some reason, it’s worked out all right.

Recycle those nerves and make their adrenaline.

Acceptance is the key to be truly free.

Find out what your gift is and nurture it.

My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you’re 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere.

I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world.

I don’t care what people say about my relationship; I don’t care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I’m getting incredible feedback from my music.

Now it’s clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain’t always what it seems.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals.

We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.

Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality have to adjust itself.

Normality is a fine ideal for those who have no imagination.

Reality will always prevail so why help it? Be an idealist and see what happens.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Excellence isn’t a one-week or one-year ideal. It’s a constant.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.