Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

I'm not really into the fashion thing.

There are different kinds of people in the world.

None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.

Change is not an event, its a process.