Quotes from Yolanda Adams

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

I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.

I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.

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 through all of this.'

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

I truly do have the most amazing child on the face of the earth. I know all parents say that about their child, but Taylor truly is special.

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, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.

Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

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 every day. And that's what my music tries to convey to all the listeners - try to cultivate it every day.

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 so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

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

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