When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

With everything, especially romantic relationships, you have to protect your heart. That doesn't mean you can't show up and be able to give this person a piece of you and be open to being yourself.

Everything that I give is to God, and my trust is in Him.

Everybody thought I was going to give up after the Destiny's Child situation. But I'm not one to say, 'Oh, poor me - it's over.' I knew that as long as I kept a strong prayer life, I would be able to fulfil my destiny.

In groups, who sings this part or that part always turns into an issue. Eventually, you get the courage to go out on your own.

I used to have this thing about my legs. If you look at all of the Destiny's Child albums from when I was a part of the group, you never saw me in a skirt. I was always the one who wore the pants, because I felt like my legs were too skinny.

People like to pick at your imperfections, and that can be very hard on you as a person. I think, a lot of times, people forget that we're human beings and some of us are fighting self-esteem issues already.

A lot of people ask me about my past. It's part of my life, so I expect people to ask certain questions. Maybe they're curious.

People love drama. They feed off of it.

I am not afraid of being alone and single.

I'm very to myself.

I think, a lot of times as women, we feel pressure from our parents, our friends: we see our friends get married.

With any relationship that you have, don't lose yourself in it.

People always say, 'When you left... ' I hate when people say, 'When you left.' Why would I leave Destiny's Child? Ask yourself that before saying that. I didn't leave. It was a decision that was made, and that's the end of that.

I try to shampoo and condition it at least once a week. I do deep conditioners as well and sit underneath the hair dryer and everything.

I don't use a lot of heat on my hair.

I love playing different characters.

I'm a picnic-in-the-park kind of girl.

I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me!

People go through times where you're not getting roles one after the other, and I definitely went through that.

I serve a major God who definitely has the last say on my life.

I would audition for all the school plays, and finally, my last year, I got the role as Pinocchio - finally.

Music is powerful.

God has given me this gift to get out there and share my music and share my experiences and share my testimony. Why not be open? Why not be real? Why not walk in my truth?

I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you say something and the whole room goes, 'What did he say?'

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.

In my lifetime, we've gone from Eisenhower to George W. Bush. We've gone from John F. Kennedy to Al Gore. If this is evolution, I believe that in twelve years, we'll be voting for plants.

All the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911.

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.

The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

When people come to my act any time after Thanksgiving, I usually say, You shouldn't be here. You should be shopping. Our economy depends on you! You should be out there buying stuff.'

You can never put too much pork in your mouth as far as I'm concerned.

Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.

If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.

When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.

When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that would never run out.

What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.

I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy.

All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

Parenting isn't just parenting your own child.

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

Every time I use an app, part of my brain dies! We'll get to the point where we go to bed and wonder: 'Did I have a thought today?' You'll have to go to your 'Thought' app!

Usually I'm too tired to apologize.

If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.