Quotes from Fantasia Barrino

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

I love Pilates, yoga, and spinning.

I wanted people to know that I've been through the rain. I've been broken into pieces; I had a daughter at such a young age. There were times people would say, 'That's it for her.' But that didn't happen.

When I realized I was having trouble reading, I was too embarrassed to ask for help. Some teachers believed in me, but I just wasn't focused on school - I was into the music and trying to please my dad.

True story - I had index cards; I would write things on them and post them on the mirror in the bathroom. And I would speak it. Because you have to speak life. You have to speak what you want. You have to watch what you say because it's power in your tongue.

Working out started as something mental. It was a way to release and let some things go.

I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.

I wanted people to see me, to change their minds about me.

I work out every day, sometimes twice a day.

I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.

I'm a true country Southern girl that has always been built around family, cookouts and gatherings and being together on the holidays, singing together and laughing together. So whenever God opened doors for me to be able to travel the world and sing and do all the great things that I've done, I didn't want to lose that part so family first for me.

I never started out as an R&B singer. I grew up on all types of music - jazz, rock, pop, country, folk - and I wanted to bring that to my stage.

I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.

You can't go into something good until you let go of all the bad stuff because you'll find yourself steady bringing up all the old in a new situation.

God didn't give up on me. I am somebody in God's eyes... Let me be a prime example of how I've been through the storm and the rain, and I made it over.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

I want to still be singing at 70 years old. I want to be open to the dreams I haven't even dreamed up.

Everything in life is a fight. Everybody wants this microwavable life, and it doesn't work like that. I'm here to say, 'See what I went through? Look at me now.'

I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.

I could NEVER stop giving God all the praises for he has been better to me than I have been to myself. My worship I owe!