“Being famous is like a dream come true but it’s really difficult because you lose your freedom. I don’t want to lose being a kid.”

I tell people, you know, going to the club doesn’t make me a bad person, going to church doesn’t make you a good one.

I think that if you’re doing something that’s important, that’s significant in your life, it takes some of the pain away.

Life is all about having a good time.

But I don’t necessarily define my faith by going to church every Sunday.

I know what I’m doing. I know I’m shocking you.

I think there are always going to be things that you’re going to want to do. It’s about picking yourself back up and starting again.

You deal. You survive. You grow up and you build a career. And you remember these big/little hardships. They make you human.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

There’s no better feeling than making somebody smile.

There’s so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love.

I understand… the pressure is definitely hard, but I think just keeping your head on your shoulders is easier than it looks. I think if you know who you are, then I think you’ll be fine for the rest of the way.

Beauty is the enemy . We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It’s a battle that can’t be won. There’s no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes.

Nobody notices your sorrow, your pain, but everyone notices your mistakes.

GOD gave you this life because HE knew you could handle it.

I don’t think you can be too ashamed of anything as long as you were being yourself. I think why people feel, um, so entitled over me is that they’ve watched me grow up. But that’s a blessing and a curse.

You can’t live a positive life with a negative mind.

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.

The state doesn’t own your children. Parents own the children.

What will a child learn sooner than a song?

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

When you’re lecturing teenagers and they begin to hum and leave the room, you can sense there is hostility.

Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

For years, my husband and I have advocated separate vacations. But the kids keep finding us.