If you had told me when I was 18 that I wouldn't have made it until I was 29, I would have said, Forget it.

I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials.

[On God:] She makes everything possible.

I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems.

You can bend but never break me. Cause it only serves to make me more determined to achieve my final goal.

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.