“We’ve been expected to be perfect but we aren’t. We’re still human.”

True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.

If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero.

I definitely feel more complete than before. There’s a void you have when you don’t feel you’ve found the other part of who you are, so I’m in a different place now and that’s nice to experience.

Lord knows dreams are hard to follow, but don’t let anyone tear them away.

If you believe within your soul, just hold on tight and don’t let go! You can make it, make it happen.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I’m not vain, I’m insecure.

I started writing poetry when I was six. I had this teacher who didn’t believe the poems I’d bring in were mine because they were dark and sad. But I wrote about what I experienced in my childhood.

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You’re all I know. I can’t let go.

I’ve seen the real extreme diva behaviour and I don’t think that’s who I am.

There’s a hero, If you look inside your heart.

I still get nervous sometimes before performing.

Cause there’s a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can’t take that away from me.

You look at me and see the girl,who lives inside the golden world,but don’t believe, that’s all there is to see,you’ll never know the real me.

I still listen to older music a lot more than new singers. I listen to whatever’s on the radio, but when I want to listen to something that moves me I put on a Stevie Wonder record.

It’s hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don’t know me.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

To succeed in life and achieve results, you must understand and master three mighty forces – desire, belief, and expectation.

The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn