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

I can do what I want to do, lucky me. But when these people are coming at me and asking these things, they don't really care about me. And I have felt like there were all these people who just wanted to use me.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now

The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.