Quotes from Naturi Naughton

To me, singing and acting have always gone hand and hand.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love.

I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.

I work out and go to the gym, but I still enjoy my soul food and snacks. But I'm a pretty petite young woman, and I just do everything in moderation and make sure that I just keep everything together.

I truly admire President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

I feel truly blessed to be one of the many black women who are leading ladies on television.

I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.

I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway for three years in 'Hairspray,' and also doing TV and film.

Singing is my passion and something that I still love to do and Im always going to want to do it.

My whole life has been about working and being in the girl group and being on stage and being an actress, but now I get to really enjoy a bigger purpose, which is motherhood, so I'm really excited.

When I was coming up, we didn't have the movement of Black Girl Magic or Black Girls Rock, but my parents made it their business to make sure I saw positive images of myself and celebrated images of black women.

Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it.

Family is hugely important to me, because like I said, it takes a village to raise a child. That's my theme. That's how I really feel about life.

Hold your dreams, don't ever let it go