VANITY

I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.

A girl's best friend is her pride.

I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

'Vanity' means worthlessness.

I'm totally comfortable with myself.

Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.

I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

I never want to be that person again, that Vanity.

I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.

I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.

Prince and I happen to think alike.

People think stars never have any problems or cares. That's bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There's a whole lotta things I've done that I don't want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.

I was young and irresponsible, a silly woman laden with sin, not caring for anything except fame and fortune and self. But I have lived seeking truth in Jesus Christ and found it has made me free.

According to God's word, we haven't done a very good job concerning our little ones, nor our teens.

Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.

I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.

I'm a real romantic.

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

I don't listen to my old music of Vanity's unless I have to hear it playing in a mall or something place like that.

Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.

An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.

Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'

I was miserable the entire time I was Vanity. I spent so many days and so many nights crying, hating who I'd become.

I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.

I never thought, 'Oh God, I'm in Prince's shadow.' He'd been performing for years, and he was my teacher.