I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

Sometimes you have to stop to think, regroup and regather yourself and realize how lucky you are to still be living and to still be breathing and still be able to even have a chance.

Confidence is everything. Confidence is what makes that simple white tee and jeans look good.

Cute accessories always help bring out your outfit and pull it all together.

Education is everything - education is your power, education is your way in life for whatever you want to do.

You can either allow social media to be helpful for you or it can be harmful. I like to let it be helpful.

My son has been the best thing that has happened in my life. He has been amazing, and he is truly heaven-sent. And so, I just feel all that love.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

The world has done nothing to me that I haven't done with the world.

The first thing I heard was spiritual music, which was imbedded. The second thing I heard was swing. And shortly, along with that, I began to hear the blues. And then I began to hear Latin music. Each one left its mark.

What kind of shorts I wear has nothing to do with music.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

I always want to play the songs that people want to hear.

I'm thankful for performing as long as I am allowed.

I think my interviews were much better than what some of the writers wrote. I just wanted the truth out.

My 12th was my most Christian and most boring year of my life. Try as I did, day after day, to cling to righteousness, I was washed down in suds of sinful surroundings.

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

People said I was king, but I was never king, and I say I'm the prime minister.

Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.

Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews.

There has been a great laziness in my soul. Lots of days I could write songs, but I could also take my $400 and play the slot machines at the riverfront casino.

Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. The words come out hard, like bullets.

People don't want to see 17 pieces in neckties. They wanna see some jeans, some gettin' down, and some wigglin'.