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

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.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

It’s in my genes. My mother was an opera singer. I’m clearly dramatic.

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you’ll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.

Whatever you’re going through in your life, don’t ever give up.

When I saw you, when I saw you I could not breathe, I fell so deep. When I saw you, when I saw you I’d never be, I’d never be the same.

My heart has never been broken, I’ve never broken anyone else’s.

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

One doesn’t remain a teenager forever.

After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

No stress, no fights. I’m leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.

I really rebel against authority.

My dear child, if you desire to be free from the cycle of birth and death, then abandon the objects of sense gratification as poison. Drink instead the nectar of forbearance, upright conduct, mercy, cleanliness and truth.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

As new chapters are born, old chapters die. Everything ceases at some point. I know it’s sad, but life goes on.

I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, should through his own blood offer himself as a sacrificial victim on the altar of the cross. This was to be done not for himself through whom all things were made, but for our sins.

The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.

You don’t know where you goin unless you know where you come from.