I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is s….

Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it..

When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another,….

I am one of those people that believes that if I am going through something, somebody else out there among those billions of people living on this Ea….

There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it t….

Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people ….

You can live a wonderful life, you can love God with all your heart, and you can love your husband or wife very passionately and have a balance in yo….

The more I grow, and the older I get, the more I am enjoying my life and know how precious it really is..

Anyone can love you when things are alright. It takes courage to love when things are not good and it does not feel right..

Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place….

When you win a Grammy... you're thinking about you winning. It is amazing. Your peers and folks in the record business are saying, 'This is what we t….

The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working..

Tramaine Hawkins has been a mentor, a confidante and an example of greatness. She has been through a lot in her life, and her career has spanned over….

I think more people in the mainstream, folks like Nancy Wilson and Luther Vandross, they have openly expressed their love for God, and when mainstrea….

I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of g….

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody..

My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this cent….

As humans, we have the tendency to call on God only when we think that we're in dire straits as opposed to cultivating a real relationship with Him e….

Education helps you to be a well-rounded person, period. It teaches you how to take in information and data, process it, and use it for life buildin….

No matter how hard it seems...never give up, always believe..