Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.

I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.

The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.

Gangsta rap was a ploy to convince black people to kill each other. Gangsta rap didnt exist.

Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.

I was so deeply involved in music, I had already outgrown all the pressure of high school cliques and gossip.

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.