"I first got interested in music as a toddler by my childhood babysitter, Rosetta Atkins. She taught me how to sing by imitating the voices on the gospel radio station she listened to - both men and women's voices."

“God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.”

“Your only problem, perhaps, is that you scream without letting yourself cry.”

“My mom is my best friend and always offers me great perspective and reminds me to be compassionate to myself in moments when I feel low.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

“I actually was class clown, but I don't know how that happened because I've never been considered an outwardly funny person-as the people in this room will attest.”

“Love is so much better when you are not married.”

“I don't think I had a Catherine Bach poster, but I know a lot of my friends desecrated those, big time.”

“We lie best when we lie to ourselves.”

Source : Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.445, Simon and Schuster

“No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.”