People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.

My mom was the Diana Ross of our clan. She was always up-to-date, and always knew what to do and what not to do in a fashion sense.

My paternal grandmother gave me the courage to investigate things and not take things at face value or judge people by what I first imagine them to be.

No one chooses to raise children alone.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

What draws me to a project is how sympathetic I am toward it, so that I can relax into it and give up myself.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.