My focus is my art, and that's what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I've turned down many things that I just didn't believe in.

I felt like it was time to set up my future, so I set a goal. My goal was independence.

You definitely feed off the people around you, and your man is one of the people you talk to the most. So you kind of help each other and keep each other strong. It's important.

One of the things that kept me out of trouble was doing something creative - creativity can't be judged.

I felt like God was giving me a chance to assist in a miracle. There is something so relieving about life taking over you like that. You're playing a part in a much bigger show. And that's what life is. It's the greatest show on earth.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.