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" My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up! "
La'Porsha Renae
Being
Mom
Camera
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" I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do. "
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" I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't. "
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Broken
Good
" When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house. "
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" I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it. "
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Situation
Time
" A lot of people behind the scenes were telling me that I was going to have to do something with my hair, my weight, all of that stuff. "
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" When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in. "
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I Can
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" I have never spoken for anyone but myself. "
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Anyone
" I really do think that getting the golden ticket for 'American Idol,' it's just the start of something really great. "
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American
Great
" A lot of people I guess, well, some people change when they get in spotlights and everything, but you can take the girl out of Mississippi, but you can't take Mississippi out the girl! "
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People
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" I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself. "
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True
Artist
Say
" When I first start writing a song, I usually write the title first, then the song, and I'll sing the song in my head and think of a visual of the song. If I can't think of a visual behind the song, I'll throw the song away. "
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Song
Start
Think
" I come from really humble people. We never had a lot. "
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Lot
Never
People
" I want to bring that old soul back, the meaningful lyrics and all of that. And I can't think of a better way to do that than through Motown. "
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Soul
Want
Back
" I am one of the people who don't really agree with that lifestyle. I wasn't brought up that way; it wasn't how I was raised, but I do have a lot of friends and a lot of people that I love dearly who are gay and homosexual, and they're such sweet, nice people. "
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Love
Friends
Nice
" I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one. "
La'Porsha Renae
Face
Career
Value
" Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting. "
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I Am
People
Music
" My parents got to see all my hard work pay off. "
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Parents
Pay
See
" A lot of my fans wanted a kind of 'in your face' song. They wanted a song that exemplifies me overcoming the situation I was in and just that triumphant kind of song. So, I felt like I wanted to go ahead and get that out of both of our systems with 'Good Woman'. "
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Woman
Song
Overcoming
" I found a belief system that worked for me, and I said, you know what, 'I actually do want to give being with men another chance.' "
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Men
You
Belief
" What made 'American Idol' different from 'The Voice' and all these other singing competitions... 'American Idol' just gave regular old normal people like me and like Trent a chance. "
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American
Singing
Chance
" My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days. "
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Loving
Bad Days
Me
" This is how I feel about the LGBT community: they are people just like us. "
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Community
Like
Just
" First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six. "
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Bathroom
Beauty
Mom
" I'm proud of my curves, my daughter, as well as the harsh past that helped shape me into the strong woman I am today. "
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Past
Me
Daughter
" Anyone is welcome to hang out with me and have fun or sit down with me and talk. I don't discriminate against anyone. And I don't condone hating someone or treating them badly because they live differently than I do. "
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Fun
Welcome
Me
" I embraced everything that I thought would hold me back from pursuing my dreams and used my insecurities to give me the courage to inspire and advocate for others who possessed many of the same insecurities I had. "
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Thought
Dreams
" Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be. "
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Boxes
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" There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time. "
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Me
Girl
" I knew being a musician was my calling when I was 12 or 13. I started singing when I was six but didn't actually see myself being a singer when I was 12 or 13. "
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" My ex-husband didn't like my singing. He didn't like my hair. He hated my eyes. Everything. Everything he complimented me on when we first met, he just hated. "
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Me