We need to be a leadership position about protecting minors on the Internet and, more importantly, giving the parents the tools they need to protect them.
I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.
I tend to sing opera and showtunes in the shower. I don't know why, but when I get in the shower I turn into this big fat opera lady.
The mall is good for hearing new music because you hear music everywhere. I like to walk around the mall and hear what the kids are listening to, or what's the feel of Middle America, cause that's what the mall is.
My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.
I have vision boards, and people think that I put the vision board up and I look at it all the time, but what I do is, when I'm having an emotional time and I'm stressed out or feeling bad, I go to the store and get all the stuff for a vision board. Instead of channeling the negative thoughts or being depressed, I change it around and I start making boards.
My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class. " I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing. " I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
The Roman Empire was very, very much like us. They lost their moral core, their sense of values in terms of who they were. And after all of those things converged together, they just went right down the tubes very quickly.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
The Word of truth teaches in the clearest and most positive terms that all of the dead will be raised. No doctrine of the faith rests upon a more literal and emphatic body of Scripture authority than this, nor is any more vital to Christianity.