I was just so honored to play the role of Cinderella and to just be the first African-American princess, that's just historic for me, that's such a mark in my life and my career and then the bonus of just working with my favorite person in the whole world, Whitney [Houston], like her voice just did something to my spirit.

When you get a chance to step back, you notice all these great things you've done and all these great people that you've worked with.

I think creativity becomes really beautiful and magical when you allow it to do what it's needing you to do.

I think different struggles in life, not knowing how to deal with certain things that have happened in my life made me doubt myself. Painful moments in your life can cause you to go into a state of depression where you don't believe that you deserve anything good in your life. You forget what you were created for. But after a while I just got tired of feeling like that.

I was rapping as a hobby. It was something I did for my friends and just played around on ideas and stuff like that.

When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.

I went through a struggle, and I really needed to get myself together and connect with my purpose, which is music.