We literally just finished making this gown 20 minutes ago. I love it. It's my favorite color.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

I have an organization called BLIND [Beautiful Love Incorporated Nonprofit Development], so named because even though my interest is in the black community, because that's where I grew up and that's where I'm most skilled in fixing things, it doesn't end there.

Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.

If you invite negativity in, you have to feed it and hang out with it. Best not to invite it in.

I know that I want to concentrate more on my inside-pretty than my outside-pretty, because thats gonna go away. But if your inside is beautiful, it never wears away. The light always shows on the outside if you are striving to be good inside.