I have a very strong family.

I enjoy them both [singing and acting] a great deal. I have a passion for both. Maybe acting just a little bit more because it's more of a challenge for me, while music comes so easily.

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

To a world sick with racism, get well soon.

I just want you inside, baby, we don't need to talk about promises.

Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.

I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.