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" 'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base. "

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" I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for. "

" I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to them to give them almost like a Broadway musical at this point in my life. I have to give them something more, so I do have to think of different ways to do it. "

" People know what they see but they don't know what's happening inside. If you want to know who you are and how you feel about yourself, take a look at your environment. "

" You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth. "

" Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen. "

" I like French fries; I like mashed. I love potatoes. "

" It's OK showing yourself some love. "

" My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. "

" I think women should band together to get us more respect in all the businesses that we're in because, you know, if we turn 40, we're nothing and nobody. We all should band together and just say we're not gonna go down like that. "

" When I was little, like 7 to 15, there was nothing I wanted to do but go to church and go to school. "

" I don't have any health problems, but to keep your health improves your quality of life. "

" The music business is not a good place for people who don't know things. "

" I don't think there's anything they can say about me that I haven't said about myself already. And I would be an absolute total liar, and my fans would not respect me, if I said that my life and my marriage are perfect. But we absolutely love each other; we have fun together - it's great. "

" Believe in yourself when nobody else does. "

Believe In Yourself

" When life is real, it's not going to be smooth. "

" You can look at my palm and see the storm coming. Read the book of my life and see I've overcome it. "

" Really, every woman is an example to me, because as women we go through so much pain. We have to live this perfect life when we are messed up inside. We all go through trials and tribulations. "

" My main exercise is cardio. The treadmill is fine, but running outdoors gives me the best results. I try to log 6 to 8 miles a week. I could be in the worst mood, but when I do my cardio, I feel much, much better. "

" So as long as I'm a human being and I'm not perfect, I'm able to say I'm having some growing pains. Because in order to sustain where you are once you made such a breakthrough that everyone is looking at you, now everyone is like, 'Ooh, is she gonna make a mistake?' Yes, I'm going to make a mistake. Yes, I'm still gonna do things. "

" When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get out of this abusive relationship', I'm in it, really in their lives. And I'm so passionate about my feelings, but also about showing people the way through theirs. "

" My first album is playful. "

" If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story. "

" I had to learn how to trust my gut. Trust what I know to be right... not right, but not waver on who I am. Know who I am, know what I want, and know it. Not waver on it and be secure in that. And I still struggle with it. But I really... I can't be moved. You can't move me, and that all comes with loving myself, and I'm like my best buddy. "

" If we didn't have understanding of our journey, we wouldn't be able to go on. We'd be stuck, like, 'Why me?' "

" You demand respect and you'll get it. First of all, you give respect. "

" There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction. "

" It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting, or you don't even understand what you're reading in your contract. "

" I've been a tomboy my whole life. But then you get older, you get married, you soften up. "

" Without your health, everything else means nothing. "