All those songs reflect all the people that live within me.

It's two people that are in love with one another. What's the issue?

I was very independent growing up, but there were things that were bothering me that I never told anybody. I would talk to our animals at home.

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.

Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were very close friends. She went through a lot, and people told her that she couldn't do certain things, but she didn't let that bother her. She said in her mind that she was going to do them and that nothing was impossible, and she did it. It was so sad... She died from drugs, and drinking as well.

We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.

I've never tried pot; I've never tried anything.