Top 35 LaPorsha Renae Quotes

I have always been a reserved and conservative person.

I can’t wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.

My fans are so loving and encouraging. They’re with me on good days and bad days.

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.

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.

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.

When people use their hurt and make a triumph in their song, that helps other people.

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.

Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.

First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom’s beauty shop. I was six.

Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn’t. Who’s to say one is wrong? It’s not fair to generalize anyone’s sexuality or walk of life.

I really do think that getting the golden ticket for ‘American Idol,’ it’s just the start of something really great.

I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that’s the life God intended me to live.

I don’t want to come off as one of those artists that’s not down to earth and real.

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.

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.

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.

People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

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.

A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

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.

My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.

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.

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.

Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She’s pop, but she’s also very, very soulful.

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’.

I have never spoken for anyone but myself.

Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.

I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

I would describe my sound as classic Motown.

I love ‘Battles,’ and I love what it’s doing for people.

A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And ‘Good Woman’ is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I’m also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.

Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.

To be honest, if it wasn’t for my daughter, I don’t think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before ‘Idol’ because I am a domestic violence survivor.

The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don’t like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.