I think that I am a walking testimony to you can have scars. You can go through turbulent times and still have victory in your life.
I know that God has had my back, even when I was screwing up.
It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.
We are born with two kidneys and only need one to survive. Maybe God gave us the other one so that we could give it away.
My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
When I did 'Unforgettable,' it wasn't appropriate for us to take liberties with that music. There had to be kind of a fine line between what had made it so great and the fact that a woman was singing it. We changed some of the arrangements, but not too much.
I feel enough distance from the person I used to be. I'm not ashamed about my life anymore, because I've learnt from it.
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.
I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.
When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?
People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.
