The more natural, the better.
There’s a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I’m in the same boat.
I’ll be a nun, raise my daughter, and make albums.
Right now, it’s really about my fans knowing that whatever I believed spiritually at the time is what I believed. I just wouldn’t deliberately lie to them just to save my image.
I can’t believe Tina Turner actually was on the same stage. I can’t believe I set foot on the same stage, and it’s going to be an album, people are going to buy it, and it’s going to be a video.
I’ve seen the photos of me and Flo Rida. It doesn’t matter how we met. We met. I don’t want to say that we’re a couple. I can definitely say that he’s somebody in my life, and I’m definitely interested but I’m not serious with anybody.
America’s Got Talent’ has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?
We have enough in our country to let us deep into the springs of human life if we only cherished what we have.
Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
America is one of the few places in the world where a poorperson can still be obese.
The world’s crazy, when it comes to beauty.
This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.
My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we’re living with right now.
Nothing’s funnier to me than laughing at myself.
If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you dont carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
